God's Healing Mercy - Softcover

Kathleen Beckman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162282315X ISBN 13: 9781622823154

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press, 2015

Synopsis

Do we believe that Jesus can heal us and brings us back from the dead?
Pope Francis

A heart in need of healing is carrying a heavy burden. As we struggle to overcome fear, anxiety, loneliness, shame, trauma, and sin, we also dream of being well loved. Only Jesus can heal your heart and offer inexhaustible love, and He stands ready to open the floodgates of His mercy upon your aching soul.

In God's Healing Mercy, experienced retreat master and trained spiritual director, Kathleen Beckman, offers a guide for a personal or group healing retreat based on Divine Mercy in Scripture and in the lives of the Saints.

She ll show you how Divine Mercy can heal festering wounds and universally transform your life. You ll learn how to confront your weaknesses, and you ll create a plan for letting God s mercy heal your heart and make straight your crooked ways.

You ll meet saints along the way who overcame deep-seated wounds and became a mighty vessel of God s mercy. Each chapter concludes with powerful, yet practical, spiritual exercises and discussion questions to foster inner healing through group or personal reflection, leading you . . .

From unforgiveness to forgiveness

From fear to trust

From anxiety to peace

From shame to mercy

From pride to humility

From powerlessness to prayer

From sin-sickness to the Eucharist

From spiritual weakness to the Beatitudes

From worldliness to works of mercy

From spiritual warfare to Christ s victory

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Do we believe that Jesus can heal us and bring us back from the dead?"Pope Francis

Healing, in a word, is resurrection. "He forgives all your inequities, He heals all your diseases, He redeems your life from the pit, He crowns you with steadfast love and mercy" (Ps 103:3-4).

Here retreat master, Ignatian trained spiritual director and author Kathleen Beckman offers a guide for a personal or group healing retreat based on Divine Mercy in Scripture and in the lives of the Saints. Beckman skillfully helps us to see how the "rays of divine mercy" heal families, marriages, the sick, poor, suffering, friends, enemies, laity, clergy, our vocations, doubters, believers, those with diabolical suffering, sinners, saints, the unborn, the elderly, children, the Church and the whole world.

Each chapter concludes with a "profile in mercy" a reflection on a saint who was a vessel of mercy including Blessed Mother Teresa, St. John Paul II, Cardinal Francis-Xavier Nguyen, Venerable Conchita Cabrera, St. Maria Goretti, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Gianna Molla, St. Faustina, St. Peter and the Virgin Mary.

Also contained in this book are scriptural spiritual exercises for healing: From unforgiveness to forgiveness From fear to trust From anxiety to peace From shame to mercy From pride to humility From powerlessness to prayer From sin-sickness to the Eucharist From spiritual weakness to the Beatitudes From worldliness to works of mercy From spiritual warfare to Christ's victory Healing the culture through works of mercy

Believers long and desperately need to encounter the living, joyful, truthful majestic face of the Father of Mercyhealer and lover of humanity. These pages lead to a healing encounter.

About the Author:

"God's Healing Mercy is a must-read for anyone who wants to encounter the living, joyful, and healing face of the Father of Mercy."
-Scott Hahn

"God's Healing Mercy is a gem! Steeped in Sacred Scripture and Holy Tradition, Kathleen Beckman has provided us with the consolation of the Truth, Who is Jesus."
-Most Rev. David Kagan
Bishop of Bismark

"This book will no doubt help you to more fully know the great triumph of God's mercy and draw your heart into the life-changing work of mercy that God desires to pour out upon the world in and through you."
-Daniel Burke
Executive Director
National Catholic Register
A Service of EWTN

"A remarkable book! I will be giving it to many people."
-Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

"God's Healing Mercy is a praiseworthy work! Kathleen Beckman has done a superb job of illustrating the deep mercy of God."
-Msgr. Stephen Doktorczyk
Official at the Holy See, Vatican City State

About this edition

• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 162282315X
• ISBN 13: 9781622823154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208