Here retreat master, Ignatian trained spiritual director and author Kathleen Beckman offers a guide for a personal or group healing retreat based on Divine Mercy in Scripture and in the lives of the Saints. Beckman skillfully helps us to see how the rays of divine mercy heal families, marriages, the sick, poor, suffering, friends, enemies, laity, clergy, our vocations, doubters, believers, those with diabolical suffering, sinners, saints, the unborn, the elderly, children, the Church and the whole world.
Each chapter concludes with a profile in mercy a reflection on a saint who was a vessel of mercy including Blessed Mother Teresa, St. John Paul II, Cardinal Francis-Xavier Nguyen, Venerable Conchita Cabrera, St. Maria Goretti, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Gianna Molla, St. Faustina, St. Peter and the Virgin Mary.
Also contained in this book are scriptural spiritual exercises for healing:
From unforgiveness to forgivenessFrom fear to trustFrom anxiety to peaceFrom shame to mercyFrom pride to humilityFrom powerlessness to prayerFrom sin-sickness to the EucharistFrom spiritual weakness to the BeatitudesFrom worldliness to works of mercyFrom spiritual warfare to Christ s victoryHealing the culture through works of mercy
Believers long and desperately need to encounter the living, joyful, truthful majestic face of the Father of Mercy healer and lover of humanity. These pages lead to a healing encounter.