• We rejoice in the continued invitation to seek justice, to be compassionate, and to reflect mercy to the world.

    - Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Constitutions #84

 
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Mercy Prayers

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Perhaps the best known prayer of Catherine McAuley is one she called her Suscipe or Act of Resignation.

Suscipe of Catherine McAuley

 

My God, I am yours for time and eternity.
Teach me to cast myself entirely
into the arms of your loving Providence with a lively,
unlimited confidence in your compassionate, tender pity.
Grant, O most merciful Redeemer,
that whatever you ordain or permit may be acceptable to me.
Take from my heart all painful anxiety;
let nothing sadden me but sin, nothing delight me but
the hope of coming to the possession of You,
my God and my all, in your everlasting kingdom. Amen.

 


 

 

 

 

 
 

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