Wednesday of Holy Week: Our Need for God’s Mercy
We don’t get to Easter Sunday without dragging through this most difficult part of the story: the weight of sinfulness and our need for God’s mercy.
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy serves as the executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network, the national Catholic organization dedicated to ending the death penalty and promoting restorative justice. Krisanne is co-author of Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures, published by Baker Academic. She holds a masters in theology degree from Boston College (formerly Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
We don’t get to Easter Sunday without dragging through this most difficult part of the story: the weight of sinfulness and our need for God’s mercy.
Are we tempted to dedicate so much time to challenging injustice that we ignore the Lenten reckoning in the desert to tend to the hardened areas of our own hearts?
Este año, la Cuaresma me llama a hacer un ejercicio de introspección y a desenmascarar lo que me tienta en la “parte más alta del templo”.
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