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Thursday March 4, 2010

Dear Friends of Francesco,

Greetings, peace and Blessings to you and your family and friends. On Ash Wednesday B16 said that Lent “lengthens our horizon; it orients us to eternal life”. To lengthen means to make longer. Length itself is a measured dimension or a degree to which something is carried. This lengthening possibility contained in the season of Lent orients us to eternal life, a reality and power of love that cannot be measured and that has no end. So what’s the point?

Well, for starters, the great JP said, “that the one measure of love is boundless love.” For our horizon - our range of perception and our experience – to be lengthened and extended into this orientation that cannot be measured, trust must become the absolute foundation of who we are and everything we do, influencing and transforming what we think and how we speak and communicate – internet included. It’s the simplicity of the “I trust in you” contained in the Divine Mercy prayer: “Jesus I trust in you.”

Want to see what this looks like? Take a look at what Jesus said to Faustina:

“Encourage souls to place great trust in my fathomless mercy. Let the weak, sinful soul have no fear to approach me, for even if it had more sins than there are grains of sand in the world, all would be drowned in the immeasurable depths of my mercy.” The language of this immeasurable mercy, the language of this love is trust. St. Padre Pio puts it like this: “Only love can appeal to what is indomitable in us, and the language of love is trust.”

What is indomitable in us is that which is unconquerable in us - something we just can't seem to stop. Or rather, and maybe even more precisely, they are the thoughts and feeling and memories which just keep dragin and beatin us down. How can we get this stuff to stop? What can we do to be set free from that which we can’t seem to see any possibility of bein free? The answer is NOTHING unless and until we seek and find, know and have someone worth of our trust. And if we seek, find, know and have a Someone Who Is this immeasurable Abyss of burning Love, well then, the immeasurable amount of our pain and suffering along with the pain, misery and suffering of the all the world will be no match for this Love and the hopeful and gradual lengthening of our horizon and expansion of our heart.

Again, let's listen to Jesus speaking to Faustina: “I am Love and mercy itself. There is no misery that could be a match for my mercy, neither will misery exhaust it, because as it is being granted – it increases. The soul which will trust in my mercy is most fortunate, because I myself take care of it.”

Jesus we trust in you…

Lord willin talk to ya’ll next week…with love and prayers…