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March 1, 2011

Dear Little Souls of the Diaspora,

Lent ! This word makes us wince ! What a pity ! For Lent is a privileged

time of Tenderness from God who looks upon our earth.

Let us try fast to straighten ourselves up and let our faces to be perfumed,

as the liturgy invites us, with the fragrance of this scented oil that our

Lord makes flowing out from his Heart.

Let us hasten for ourselves the welcoming of this balm which cures

wounds of our sins. Let us bathe in the so sweet words of the Psalms

102-103: Yes ! The Lord is Tenderness and Mercy.

But be not self-centered. We are not the only ones who need this

motherly consolation. We have to draw its essence, to implore it with

“ loud voices ” for our world, which does not even doubt of its need for

this solace. Let us meditate on the last paragraph from the Encyclical

letter “ Dives in Misericordia ”, this text so important to live the

spirituality of Trust in Merciful Love.

Finally, with Marguerite, let us tackle this mission that Jesus has given to

us: Proclaiming His Tenderness and Mercy to all who are entrusted to

our solicitude of Little Souls. Let the merciful Heart of Jesus have a

hold on us, so we may become the perfumed vessels for this world,

which has forgotten the Sweet Fragrance of Christ.

Father Marcel ��

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The Lord is Tenderness and Mercy,

Slow to anger and full of Love

The Lord does not treat us according to our faults, the Lord does not get back

at us for our trespasses. As is the height of heavens above the earth, powerful

is his Love for the one who fears him; as far is the distance from East to West,

He moves our sins away from us. As is a father’s tenderness for his children,

sweet is the Lord for the one who fears him ; He knows from what we have

been kneaded , He remembers the dust that we are. (Ps 102-103)

The Right and Duty of the Church:

Interceding for the world

Pope John Paul II

Not a moment nor a period in history – especially during a time as critical as

ours – the Church cannot forget Prayer which is a call out to God’s Mercy

when facing multiple forms of evil that weigh upon mankind and threaten it.

Such are the essential right and duty of the Church, in Jesus Christ : this is

the right and duty of the Church towards God and towards men.

The more human conscience, succumbing to secularization, forgets the very

meaning of the word “ Mercy ” ; by distancing itself from God, the more

human conscience drifts away from the mystery of Mercy, and so more does the

Church have the right and duty to invoke God’s Mercy “ in loud voices ”.

These “ loud voices ” have to characterize the Church of our time (...)

... This is in this Mystery (the Paschal mystery) which carries in its nature, the

most complete revelation of Mercy, of Love stronger than death, stronger than

sin regardless of all evil, of Love that catches man on his deepest falls, and set

him free from the gravest threats...

(Dives in Misericordia – 15)

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I am Tenderness and Mercy.

Mercy for those who take the paths of perdition

J Subject yourself to my demands !

M What demands, oh my Jesus ?

J Be a limpid little brook that I stream forth upon the world.

Flow gently over its wounds, the breath of my love, refreshing and

strengthening.

Follow faithfully the way that I have drawn in front of you,

for my Love passes in you, you so little.

Do not turn aside from your path, this path plenty of Pure Love in

bloom.

No matter what is said or done, do not take your eyes off an instant

from my plan that I have composed for you, my daughter.

I am Tenderness and Mercy.

Mercy for those who take the paths of perdition,

which are clearly not joining the Royal Way of Merciful Love.

Tenderness and Mercy for painful suffering

which has been relentlessly breaking the Hearts of men.

Tenderness and Mercy for this world troubled and cruel,

who does not comprehend that Love is present inside the quagmire

portrayed by sins, which cease not offending my Divine Heart.

Mercy and Tenderness for sinner,

but I am Justice for sin and pride that dominate him.

(13 octobre 1986)

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Sorrowful mysteries – O

First Mystery : Agony of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemani

J The sacrifice of the Cross will be enduring as long as there are sinners,

meaning until the end of times. Until that day, men will make their God

suffer.

(24 April 1966)

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Het Kruisoffer zal voortduren zolang er zondaars zijn, dit wil zeggen tot het einde der tijden. Zolang zullen de mensen hun God doen lijden.

Second Mystery: The scourging of Jesus

J My little child, to the end of your life, you would have to suffer from

yourself and by others. Do not ask me to spare you from it.

What I give you as suffering is not unbearable for I take almost everything

on me. Must I not hold you under humility ?

(1 October 1966)