This document is a summary of a Lenten reflection on the theme "Rise, Pick up your mat and go home" from Mark 2:11. It discusses how being rooted in lies and lack of trust in God leads to an insecure foundation, while being rooted in God's love and mercy forms an identity of fruitfulness. It emphasizes forgiving others as we have been forgiven, and how the Rosary, Confession, and intercessory prayer can lead to a healing of memories. The reflection concludes that through experiencing God's mercy and forgiving one another, we can experience healing and become instruments of God's mercy for others.

2. Recollecti
on
Lenten
Single for Chirst
April 1, 2023
Theme: “Rise, Pick up your mat and go
home”
Mk. 2:11

4. If we are rooted in
the lies of the
devil and a lack of
trust in God, we
will have an
insecure
foundation.
SINS

5. if we are
rooted in the
love and
mercy of God,
our identity
will be
Love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-
control.

6. FRUITFULNESS

7. AUTONOM
Y
FRUITFULNESS

8. Matt 6:9
OUR FATHER...
FRUITFULNESS

9. “Your Father knows
what you need before
you ask him”
(Matt 6:8)
FRUITFULNESS

10. “God wants to
keep good things
from you. Don’t
ask. You need to
take it.”
FRUITFULNESS

11. we must get to the
roots and reject the lies
of the devil.
FRUITFULNESS

12. FORGIVESS and
HEALING
MEMORIES

13. J.R.R. Tolkien
FORGIVENESS
“is of course a
fundamentally
religious and
Catholic work,”

14. Two petitions from the Our Father
FORGIVENESS
“forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us; and
lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.”

15. FRODO GOLUM

16. FORGIVENE
SS
The more we learn to
forgive, the more we
will experience
forgiveness, which
will free us from the
devil and his lies and
temptations.

17. FORGIVENE
SS
forgive us our
trespasses, as we
forgive those who
trespass against us,

18. FORGIVENE
SS
when we are lacking in
mercy we will also be
lacking in fruitfulness.

19. FORGIVENE
SS
“Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from
every evil. Graciously grant peace
in our days. That by the help of
your mercy, we may be always
free from sin and safe from all
distress…”

20. FORGIVENE
SS
“by the help of your mercy”

21. FORGIVENE
SS
Who are you?
Who is Mario
Bergoglio?
“I am a sinner
whom the Lord
has looked upon.”

22. FORGIVENE
SS
• On the one hand, we should
recognize with humility that
we are sinners.
• On the other hand, we
should recognize our dignity
as God’s children whom
God is constantly looking
upon in order to share his
love and mercy.

24. “If this man
were a prophet,
he would know
who and what
sort of woman
this is who is
touching him,
that she is a
sinner”

25. “Her many sins
have been
forgiven; hence,
she has shown
great love. But
the one to
whom little is
forgiven, loves
little”

26. St. Faustina,
“The greater
the sinner, the
greater the right
he has to My
mercy” (Diary,
723).

27. HEALING
MEMORIES
Instead, Jesus
invites us to a
healing of our
memories. We
cannot change
the past, but God
can purify and
heal the way that
we remember
things.

28. HEALING
MEMORIES
“Have you eaten from the
tree of which I had forbidden
you to eat?”

29. HEALING
MEMORIES
It was “the woman, whom you put
here”, and Eve says, “The snake
tricked me”

30. •ROSARY
•CONFESSION
and
•INTERCESSOR
Y PRAYER

32. we experience mercy. We are
not perfect, and so we forgive
each other, while helping
each other to grow.

38. yopu will not not oly experience healing,
but you van become a Tree of Life for
others. You will become a instrument of
God’s mercy and healing.

39. THANK YOU!