Giovan Francesco Barbieri, known as “il Guercino” (1591-1666), S. Maria Maddalena Penitente, altar-piece for the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena delle Convertite al Corso, oil on canvas, 1622, Vatican Museums, Art Gallery ©Musei Vaticani
“God’s mercy is an inexhaustible source that Christ
brought into the world precisely with the desire,
he anxiety to seek us, to pursue us and to tell us: I have loved you;
I have come for you, so that you might understand who you are
and how paralyzed and miserable you are.
But have faith, O child, these miseries of yours are forgiven.
Therefore, today we will go to Jesus:
like the paralytic, we too will present ourselves before Him.
With all humility we will ask Him, that the trust in his omnipotence
and goodness might be renewed in our soul. Let everyone implore:
Lord, save me: You alone have words of eternal life.”
(Paul VI, Homily, 20 September 1964)
Under the direction of: Paolo Ondarza
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