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Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it. “We are an Easter people and alleluia is our song.” -St. Augustine Throughout the year…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it. “My family is starving while hiding from the Taliban.  You’re telling me there’s no way…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it. “They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it. While visiting with my 3-year-old niece last summer, I quickly began quoting what seemed to…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it.  When you’re raised Catholic in Steubenville, Ohio, you quickly learn that when a priest, deacon,…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it.  Pilgrimage: a sacred journey.  Before my first immersion retreat to the U.S./Mexico border, I had…

Mercy Moments: Our lives are dripping with mercy.  Indeed, our world is drenched in it.  My entire career has been centered on stories of suffering and injustice.  I taught a…

Join Immigration Legal Assistant, Marissa Madden, in “Mercy Moments”, a weekly Lenten reflection from Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri.