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The Healer of the World

God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that all who believe in him may not die, but may have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.

We saw his glory, The glory of the only Son of the Father, Full of grace and truth. No-one has seen God, But God, the only son, who is at the side of the Father, he has made him known.

And so Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the Good News The Kingdom of God is close Change your hearts Believe in the Good News

Levi

Tax collectors were sinners, not fit to be friends of holy men… He came past the place where Levi was collecting taxes off his own people for the Roman Empire. Jesus said to Levi, ‘Come, follow me…’

The Leper

Lepers were untouchables, living outside the towns and villages. Whoever touches them becomes as unclean as they are… A leper came to Jesus and said, if you want to, you can heal me. Jesus reached out and touched him and said, of course I want to. Be healed.

The Samaritan Woman

Samaritans were religious outcasts, as far from God as it is possible to be… Jesus rested by the well, weary from walking, when a Samaritan woman came by. He asked her for water. She didn’t understand, so he said: If you knew the grace of God, and who it is asking for water, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.

Jesus said, whoever drinks the water that I give, shall never thirst. The water I give will become a stream inside them, welling up to eternal life. The Samaritan woman said, sir, give me this water, so that I can drink and don’t have to come back to this well again.

The Man Born Blind

Who sinned? This man or his parents for him to be born blind? Neither he nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God’s work could be revealed in him. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

The Mission

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, he has sent me to bring the Good News to the poor, freedom to prisoners, to the blind, new sight, release to all who are

• ppressed and to proclaim a year of the

Lord’s favour.

Reconciliation

They were complaining because he ate with sinners, so he told them this story… A man had two sons. The younger son took his share of the family property and left home for a different country. But he squandered all he had

• n wild living. He began starving to death. Then

he came to his senses and said, I will return to my father and say, I am no longer worthy to be your son, treat me as one of your hired slaves…

Reconciliation

They were complaining because he ate with sinners, so he told them this story… “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”

”This brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus collected taxes for the Romans in Jericho. When he heard Jesus was passing through, he wanted to see him, so he climbed a tree to get a view. When Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, come down from there. Today I must stay at your house.’

Washing Feet

Jesus wrapped a towel round his waist and began washing his disciples’ feet. Afterwards he said Do you understand what I have done? You call me ‘Lord’ and ‘Master’ – that’s right, I

• am. But if I wash your feet, then you must

wash each other’s feet. No servant is greater than his master, no messenger greater than the one who sent him.

The Last Supper

Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it, gave it to his disciples, saying This is my body, it will be given up for you

The New Covenant

Then he took the cup, blessed it and gave it to them saying: This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the covenant, it will be poured out for you and for the many for the forgiveness of sins

The Sacrifice that Heals a broken world

He endured the suffering that was ours, the pain that was ours to bear. All the while we thought his suffering was a punishment sent by God. But he was wounded because of our sins and struck because of the evil we had done. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows that he received

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, he will leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and search for the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than

• ver the ninety-nine that

did not go astray. Equally it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little

• nes should perish.

(Matthew 18:12 - 14)

This is my faithful servant in whom I delight, He will bear the punishment of many and for his sake, I will forgive them.

Tell souls where they are to look for help; that is, in the Court of Mercy (the Sacrament of Confession). There the greatest miracles take place and are continually

• repeated. To benefit from this

miracle, it is not necessary to go on a great pilgrimage or to carry out some external ceremony; you only need to come with faith to the feet of My representative (the priest in Confession) and to reveal to him your misery.

For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.

In the Sacrament of Confession the miracle of Divine Mercy will be fully

• demonstrated. If someone’s

soul was like a decaying corpse so that from a human standpoint, there would be no hope of salvation and everything would already be lost, it is not so with God. The miracle of Divine Mercy restores that soul in full (Diary, 1448).