World Youth Day USA Guides Retreat Manual | Page 42

CATECHETICAL PRESENTATION

never gives up searching for the lost

“MERCY”

and, with great mercy, rejoices in those

NOTE TO LEADER: It is recommended to use

who have returned.
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selections on mercy in the Catechism of the

The Samaritan Woman at the Well

Catholic Church. These include: God’s mercy (210-

(Jn 4:4-42) – Jesus knows the Samaritan

211); Jesus, who shows the Father’s mercy (545, 589,

woman’s heart and past, and yet still

1439, 1846); our acceptance of God’s mercy (1847,

loves her and shows mercy and

2840); the Church’s bestowing of mercy (2040); Mary

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