Private Retreat w/ Fr. S. McDonald #6: Confidence In Mercy

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Father Steven McDonald, First Assistant of the SSPX US District, has put together a series of conferences on the Sacred Heart in a virtual retreat format.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the SSPX podcast. This is the sixth installment of the personal retreat from Father Stephen McDonald on the Sacred Heart. In this episode, he discusses the two virtues that are necessary in order to have confidence in the sacred heart. As with all of our podcasts, it does take great amount of time and resources to put
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0:55.8	Now, here's Father Stephen McDonald.
0:57.7	We have been considering Christ's great desire to show mercy to the sinner who truly
1:01.9	repents. Mercy is, of course, a very special characteristic of the sacred heart.
1:09.2	Our Lord has given us ample proof in both his parables and in his life of his great desire
1:15.6	to show mercy.
1:17.6	In fact, the Sacred Heart calls us to an ever greater confidence in his loving mercy.
1:23.6	But to carry out this spirit of confidence in God's mercy, we must look at two different virtues.
1:31.3	Firstly, the virtue of confidence, which causes us to trust in mercy, which allows us to combat the lack of confidence, which is so prevalent in today's world, as well as the virtue of mercy,
1:47.8	which moves us to imitate the very mercy of the sacred heart, reminding ourselves that in showing
1:54.3	mercy, we will have mercy shown to us. Firstly, we consider the virtue of confidence. We define it quite simply as the virtue,
2:05.9	which causes one to hope in the help offered by God to save one's soul. The virtue which causes
2:14.4	one to hope in the help offered by God to save one's soul.
2:20.5	In fact, it's this virtue of confidence which can make someone certain of this help.
2:26.8	We are confident that God will give us the help we need to save our soul.
2:33.1	This virtue of confidence is a very necessary, very consoling virtue. It reminds us of
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