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    Divine Mercy for Children: A Guided Tour of the Museum of Mercy
    Divine Mercy for Children: A Guided Tour of the Museum of Mercy
    Divine Mercy for Children: A Guided Tour of the Museum of Mercy
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    Divine Mercy for Children: A Guided Tour of the Museum of Mercy

    By Vinny Flynn and Brian Kennelly

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    In this adaptation of his best-selling 7 Secrets of Divine Mercy, Vinny Flynn, one of the country's foremost experts on Divine Mercy, leads young people on an exploration through the “Museum of Mercy.” Within the halls and rooms of this museum, they'll discover:

    • the amazing relationship the Holy Trinity wants to have with them,
    • the inspiring story of St. Faustina and her visions of Jesus,
    • an explanation of powerful passages from St. Faustina's Diary,
    • the signs and symbols hidden in the Divine Mercy Image,
    • the special graces they can receive from meditating on Christ's passion,
    • how and when to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Novena,
    • and practical ways to live out the Divine Mercy message in their daily lives.

    With captivating illustrations and discussion questions for children and parents after each chapter, this upper elementary and middle school title will inspire young people to live and share the message of Divine Mercy throughout their lives!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTAN Books
    Release dateFeb 3, 2021
    ISBN9781505116755

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      Divine Mercy for Children - Vinny Flynn

      Chapter 1

      The Holy Trinity

      Three Words Say It All

      After entering the Museum of Mercy, everyone is filtered into an opening room. We must pass through this room first before going anywhere else in the museum. And it’s a room that gets your attention right away.

      Why?

      Because the doorway is a triangle rather than a rectangle (or a circle, if you’re a hobbit). Above one side of the triangle reads the word Father. Atop the other: Child. And finally, just below where you enter the room, the word Love is inscribed on the floor.

      Before going through this strange doorway, let’s understand something you’ll need to remember throughout your tour of the museum.

      God has a plan.

      Maybe that’s obvious to you. Maybe you’ve been told that God watches over all of us and that he has a plan for your life. But sometimes we can hear something so often that we forget its meaning. So let’s stop for a moment. I want to make sure you understand just exactly what God’s plan is and how you fit into it.

      St. John Paul II helps us bring God’s big plan down to three simple words: Father. Child. Love. The number three is important in Christianity, right? Why?

      Yep, you guessed it … the Holy Trinity! The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are reflected in these three words from our beloved pope. The Trinity is a Family: God the Father, his Child Jesus, and the Holy Spirit who is the Love between them. (St. Pope John Paul II called the Holy Spirit the Person Love.) Everything about God’s plan can only be understood in light of this Family.

      Now that we know that, let’s walk inside this first room.

      The Plan of Mercy

      As we’ll see later, God knew each of us before he formed us in our mother’s womb, and even before the creation of the world, he loved us so much that he wanted us to become his children—not just creatures, but children, like Jesus. In other words, he wanted us to come into his Family, the Holy Trinity.

      His desire to do this springs from love. Love wants to give itself away; it wants to pour itself out. If you love your mom, you want to give her flowers on her birthday, right? This simple gesture is love pouring itself out. You are pouring a piece of yourself into that sweet-smelling gift.

      God knows how wonderful his Family is, and so he wants to share it with others. That’s why he decided to create more beings to love.

      Now we are finally getting to mercy! Mercy is an unmerited gift, which just means it’s a gift we don’t deserve. God’s love for us (and our very existence) are gifts like that, because how could creatures ever deserve to be created and loved by the God of the universe? So, when God’s love flows out of the Trinity on you and me, it’s called mercy, because none of us could possibly deserve it—in the same way that you didn’t do anything before you were born to deserve the life your parents have given you.

      Usually, when we hear that we don’t deserve something, it might make us think we did something bad. That’s not what it means here. It just means that you can’t do anything to earn God’s love (or your parent’s love). What’s great about this love is that it’s pure gift; you don’t have to do anything for it. All you have to do is be you!

      So just for being you, you are invited to be a part of the greatest Family in all the world—the Holy Trinity! And this invitation comes to you through God’s mercy.

      Jesus Is Your Ride to the Party

      Jesus, the Second Person of this Holy Family, is pretty important for this discussion (and every discussion, for that matter!), because while mercy is our invitation to join this Family, Jesus is the way we join it.

      Think of it like a party: you get an invitation from the person hosting it, but then you need a way to get there. God’s mercy is like the invitation to join the party—it lets you know you’re invited—and Jesus is the one who’s going to pick you up and take you there. He’s your ride.

      Now here comes the cool part, a little secret that a lot of people don’t know. God’s grand plan involved sending Jesus to earth to become man, to live and teach and die on the cross, and then rise again and ascend into heaven (okay that part’s not a secret, but this next part is). Through this plan, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us, God perfectly introduced his Son’s humanity, including his body, into the Trinity (CCC 648).

      What does this mean for us? It means that everything the Father did for Jesus, he wants to do for you. You are destined by God, if you cooperate, to be introduced by the Father into the Trinity, not just your soul, but your body too. Most people walking around our cities, towns, and in the countryside sadly don’t know that they have an invitation waiting on them to be swept up into the life of the Holy Trinity. That’s why we say it’s a secret, but unlike normal secrets, we need to tell everyone!

      You see, the Father didn’t just send Jesus to suffer and die for us, he also sent him to bring us back with him. Jesus is the way we receive the invitation of mercy to the party and he’s also the way we get there. When we show up with him, we are welcomed in to the Lord’s house. You might picture Jesus showing up and saying, It’s cool, Dad; they’re with me!

      By being at this party with the holiest Family there is, we can share fully in God’s divine life. The journey to this divine party with Jesus is known as divinization—a pretty strange word, but St. Athanasius tells us what it means: The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

      This doesn’t mean that we’re equals with God or that we can replace him; it just means that we become so united with him and his way of living that

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