{"id":19478,"date":"2024-08-23T07:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/2024\/08\/23\/prayer-fasting-mercy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:48:13","slug":"prayer-fasting-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comunitamagnificat.org\/en\/prayer-fasting-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer, fasting, mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Whoever wants to find God&#8217;s heart open toward him.<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>Do not close his own to those who plead with him.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Three are the things, three, O brethren, whereby faith stands firm, devotion endures, virtue remains: prayer, fasting, mercy.\nThat for which prayer knocks, fasting gets it, mercy receives it.\nThese three things, prayer, fasting, mercy, are one and receive life from each other.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fasting is the soul of prayer and mercy the life of fasting.\n[&#8230;] Therefore he who prays, let him fast.\nHe who fasts, let him have mercy.\nHe who in asking desires to be heard, let him who asks be heard.\nWhoever wishes to find God&#8217;s heart open toward him, let him not close his own to those who supplicate him.\n[&#8230;] Let him who hopes for compassion have compassion.\nHe who asks for mercy, let him exercise it.\nHe who wants to be granted a gift, let him open his hand to others.\nHe is a bad requester who denies to others what he asks for himself.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>O man, be the rule of mercy for yourself.\nThe way you want mercy to be used on you, use it on others.\nThe breadth of mercy you want for yourself, abound it for others.\nOffer to others that same ready mercy, which you desire for yourself.\n[&#8230;]      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8230;which thou shalt have bestowed in mercy shall return abundantly to thy barn.\nTherefore, O man, that thou mayest not lose by wanting to keep for thyself, give to others, and then thou shalt reap.\nGive to thyself, giving to the poor, for what thou hast bequeathed to another, thou shalt not have.&#8221;    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">(From the <em>Discourses<\/em> of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop &#8211; Disc.\n43; PL 52, 320 and 322) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>O man, be for yourself<\/strong> <strong>The rule of mercy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dearest Workers and Collaborators of <strong>Operation Little Brother<\/strong>, what legacy do we want to build?\nWhat do we want to gather at the end of this Lenten season? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Three are the things, three, O brothers, whereby faith stands firm, devotion endures, virtue remains: <em>prayer<\/em>, <em>fasting<\/em>, <em>mercy<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us, therefore, dedicate ourselves to them, especially let us not forget to make mercy concrete by sharing the little or the much we have with those who await mercy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>God bless you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Orestes and the Executive Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whoever wants to find God&#8217;s heart open toward him. 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