God have mercy on me a sinner!
It was on a Friday morning they took me from my cell; and I saw they had a carpenter to crucify as well.
You can blame on Pilate; you can blame it on the Jews; You can blame it on the devil; it is God that I accuse.
For God is up in heaven and He doesn’t do a thing; with a million angels watching and they never move a wing.
It is God they ought to crucify I said to the carpenter hanging on the tree; for Barrabas was a murderer and they just let him go and You are being crucified for doing nothing here below.
It is God they ought to crucify I said to the carpenter on the tree…..and it was God they crucified.
The reality of sin and its cost opened the divine and sacred heart to pay the price for you and me. We are the souls that required the divine precious blood be poured out upon that cross that we might be able to pray as the publican. With eyes cast down examining our souls we plead: “O God have mercy on me a sinner.” The realization of what we have done leads us to the imitation of our Lord.
How can we imitate His Death for our sake? In the first place take a look at the family in which you live and move. We are so ready to cry out in condemnation because we do not see the sinful soil in our own souls. We proudly think the problem is with the other person when the real guilt is our own. How often have we recognized and publicized our outstanding qualities. Why we fast on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from meat while we imbibed all the drinks possible. Why we tithe on what we produce while we give from our abundance and never from our need.
Pride pushes our chariot which we call “Justice” while the poor publican owns his sin and humbles himself begging for divine mercy. Humility joined to sin is the combination that leads the soul to heaven. Our Lord told us that the publican went home justified because of his heartfelt humble prayer.
The Pharisee stands when he ought to kneel before the Almighty. The pharisee judges all others as below his righteousness. He is the top of the line and let no one think differently. Pride dominates his relationship to the adulterer, the thief, the murderer. Their lives are condemned and he alone stands approved and his prayer is nothing more than a patting of oneself on one’s back. Is not this pride found in every demon-cratic candidate for the U.S. President? They cry out their respect for all illegal aliens entering our country by hook or crook but they condemn the innocent American Babies to a horrific death within the womb of their “mothers”? What a travesty of “respect for people” they show by their phony political pablum.
America needs to fall on its knees and beg our Lord for mercy. Yes, mercy on my soul for not entering into the battle for life more definitively. Mercy on your soul for letting this murderous rampage go on and on. Mercy for America whose pride has caused many to take up the banner of the Evil One and seek the power to control all our souls. Our battle is a battle of prayer. Will we pray to the One Who created us, redeemed us and desire to sanctify us or will we pray to Lucifer who desires the death of all that God creates?
In will step the Mother of mercy to crush the serpent’s head which is shown by the foul mouthed and violent groups like Antifa, Jihadist, abortionists, leftists. They will find their place in hell if they do not wake up to the need for the virtue of humility. Their pride is crushing our society. They are crucifying the person of our Lord Jesus Christ by their desire to control and dominate in this world. If only our religious leaders would invoke the guidance of our Lady, our mother, then perhaps there would be a universal consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the manner in which God requested. It has not been done and the evidence of a Russian-Chinese chastisement looms on the horizon. Let us pray in humility with the Publican: “God have mercy on us, all sinners.”
In the hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Fr. Richard Voigt, S.D.B.
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