An infinity of signs of mercy

Reversing the idea that we are the good ones and the good ones, we tell in this column when we have been “merciful”

For only by discovering love can we return it. In fact, in addition to doing the works of mercy, we must learn to receive and acknowledge them

(by Riccardo Rossi)

Signs of the Lord’s mercy in my life I have seen an infinite number of them. For this reason, I will highlight some very important ones for me that have given me faith, each time deeper and deeper.

The first time was in 1999: I was 31 years old, a young press officer for the Greens in Naples.

Work was my only anchor, I lived alone, my parents were separated, a brother disappeared (a little younger), with drug problems and later consecrated to Satan.

Pain was my bread and butter in the family, but it was also added where I worked; a friend of mine from the Greens was heavily threatened and I also suffered the same fate, both with words and physically.

I was devastated, everything collapsed, I took refuge in Torre Annunziata with a friend, Marinella, for a change of scenery.
Well, I followed her on an outing with her son Riccardino (a few years old). She entered the Basilica Maria S.S. della Neve church and I was there with her.
I don’t know why I did it: I hadn’t entered a church for about 20 years.

I stood in front of the statue of Our Lady in silence and felt a great Peace; I knew immediately that she could not come to me because I was in complete affliction. From that moment, I understood that I had to seek that full Peace and embarked on a Christian path.

Two acts of mercy, the welcoming of my friend and the gift of Peace from Our Lady at that delicate moment.

Since 2003, I have chosen to give my life to the Lord, and I have been a volunteer at the Mission of Hope and Charity in Palermo together with my wife for several years.

In 2011, I was meditating on reconciling with my parents, and I got a phone call from Brother Biagio (whom I had already known for a while); he was going to Schio, a town in Veneto, for a testimony and a visit to St. Bakhita and asked if I wanted to accompany him.

I knew right away that my prayers had been answered; I had planned to go to Verona (not far from Schio) to visit my family and realized that I would have great support during those days of fellowship with Brother Biagio and prayer.

After a few days spent with Brother Biagio, I was filled with prayer and the Holy Spirit, and this state of mind was very important for the meeting with my parents. Wounds, you know, come back at times of reconciliation, but thanks to those days with Brother Biagio, I kept myself serene and peace with my family came after some years of separation.

What a great mercy of God to have introduced me to Brother Biagio and given me those days of prayer with him.

In Lent of 2022, I received as a gift from my friend Nuncio the book “The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ” by Luisa Piccarreta.
He told me that reading it merged into Jesus could give me more gifts, but it struck me very much that it could heal me from my spiritual wounds of childhood.

I read it, merged in Jesus, for several months. When I participated in a cenacle in October 2022 of the Little Sons of Palermo, with the meditation of the Book of Heaven (also penned by Luisa) I felt that the Trinity was next to me when I was little and my father was beating me and, in the meantime, I felt, besides pain, also joy.

Thanks to this act of Mercy of the Trinity, I realized that I could give this testimony of healing to those who are young (and not only) and are in family pain.

In life, we are full of wounds and miseries, we should seek only The Kingdom of God and we would find all the mercy we need.

In this regard let us give voice to Jesus: “I come as King in the midst of the peoples, but not to demand taxes and tribute, no, no; I come because I want your will, your miseries, your weaknesses, all your evils. My sovereignty is precisely this: I want everything that makes you unhappy, restless tormented, to hide it and burn it all with my love and, as the beneficent, peaceful, magnanimous King that I am, to reciprocate you with my Will, with my tenderest love, with my riches and happiness, with the purest peace and joy. If you give me your Will everything is done, you make me happy and you will be happy. No other sigh but that mine reigns among you” (Appeal of the Divine King in the Kingdom of His Will, Book of Heaven volume one, Gamba edition).

Let us give Jesus our human will and we will live happily and with all goods, like Adam and Eve before original sin.

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