Life on earth is like a drop of water as it falls down into the ocean waiting to embrace it. It falls in a very short time. What a wonderful, consoling truth for the believer, awareness, certainty that comes from faith, of the promises of the Risen Lord, life does not fall into nothingness, it is joined forever with the infinite love of God, plunged into the boundless sea of His Divine mercy! --Msgr. Luciano Alimandi

Though I read it but rapidly, today's reflection from CatholicCulture.org really spoke to me. One of the more practical aspects is how just the saying of the Fatima Prayer after each of the decades of the Rosary is an imploring of the Mercy of God for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Mercy, mercy--all is mercy!