Go and Sin No More

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In keeping with the Fathers of the Church, the dead boy being carried out of the city in today’s Gospel is like a soul in mortal sin being sent out from the walls of the Church. St. Thomas Aquinas adds that since a great crowd was aware of his death, the young man was accomplished in sin and more public in sinning. Yet, the Sacred Heart takes pity on the tears of the sorrowing Mother, which is the Sorrowful Virgin Mother along with the members of the Church begging for his conversion. In the Gospel, it was the tears of the Mother that moved Our Lord to mercy. Do we know someone who has fallen away? Living in mortal sin? Let us not give up or lose heart! Instead let us pray to Our Lady for the conversion of sinners as she requested at Fatima…and have a crowd join you. Last Sunday we visited the ROOM where all our good and bad deeds, acts of virtue and vice, are spelled out in our own handwriting on index cards. We left this Room knowing that there were other cards to be written. What kind of cards will this young man now write for his ROOM?? Will he relapse into sin?? Some say in our times that it is not possible to follow the Commandments, thinking they are just ideals. NOT SO! In St. John's Gospel Our Blessed Lord tells the paralytic (38 years in his disease): “Behold thou art made whole: SIN NO MORE, lest some worse thing happen to thee” (5:14). And to the woman caught in adultery: “go, and now sin no more!” (8:11). If Our Lord says we can go and sin no more, then we must be able to! Let us adopt an effective Battle Plan to make this possible in our lives. Here is one: http://reginaprophetarum.org/mission_materials/My%20Battle%20Plan%20against%20Sin.pdf For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest

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• Repentance