Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2008
“I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: ‘Jesus I trust in you.’” (Diary, 327)
There are now several versions of the image of the Divine Mercy. Our Lord told Faustina:
’Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace.‘ (Diary, 313)”
Our Lord promised:
“By means of this image I shall be granting many graces to souls; so let every soul have access to it.” (Diary, 570)
(Image: The Batkowski version.)
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Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2008
A lifelong sentence.
I read an account of an 84 year old Spanish woman who continues to suffer from depression over the loss of her child fifty seven years ago, due to a forced abortion. Her fiance insisted she abort the child she was carrying, despite the fact they later married. It is a tragic story.
Asked if she has ever forgotten it (the abortion), she is adamant. “No, I never forgot about it. I thought about it day and night and I tried to do things to forget it. But it has come back now very strong. The memory of that abortion has never left me, I have been depressed ever since,” Maria said. - CNA
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Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2008
From Don Marco, who knows well about confidence and love.
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Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2008
On the pregnant “man”
From Cosmos, Liturgy and Sex…
The fantasy of changing one’s personal meaning by changing one’s gender is derived from the fallacious belief that sexuality somehow frees us from our bondage to fear, inadequacies and despair. There is the tendency among many of us to cling to what can be lost or taken away, but there are those among us who invest their total being into these fears to the point where there can be no rest or satisfaction of ever receiving enough in return. To carry the burden of an external locus of control, one lives life with the constant feelings of being controlled by the actions of others and blown about by the whims of the world - being terrified of the bitter taste of losing or being denied of whatever is held in high value to them, some to the point of life itself.
Gender roles and identities are ultimately formed through the individual mind as experienced within the world which immediately surrounds us; consequently, some of us fail to recognize the potential fraud of assuming an identity in the first place. Constrained by deep insecurities and fears through reacting against the reality of one’s own sexual identity, some cling to a fantasy of there being something “wrong” with the external body vs. something being “wrong” internally, within the heart and mind. Simply speaking, Gender Identity Disorder is more of a rejection and abandonment of who one is, than the adoption of who and what one desires to be. - Post on “How does it feel to be a pregnant man?”
Whoever Shelray is, I thought this to be very insightful.
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