Divine Mercy Image and Gamma Knife Surgery

   

                                                 

Recently I came across the term "gamma knife" a radiation therapy . One of my cousins underwent this therapy for brain tumour. It took just a wee bit time for the surgery, that too without even a local anesthesia ...! Amazing!
http://www.indicure.com/brain-surgery/Gamma-Knife-Surgery.htm

That has made me think of the Divine Mercy Rays emanating from the Heart of Jesus. I took the original Vilnius image of Divine Mercy Image to meditate on this. And as I was praying the Chaplet, I started imagining the rays going into my being, like in the gamma knife therapy , and how Sin, the cancerous disease that destroys the very fibre of my soul, is being burnt to naught with the power of those rays.( Cf. Hebrews 12:29 ; "our God is a consuming fire"!). Ah, that's indeed a great way to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

 http://mercyimages.com/
As I started searching for more ideas on this two e-books in pdf format has struck the right cord.

Pope Benedict in his book 'Spirit of Liturgy' , has written about the need for sacred art (Part III, 'Art and Liturgy'), and he notes that the Divine Mercy Image , which Jesus Himself has requested to be painted and venerated, as the most perfect image or icon.

Benedict wrote:

“The icon is intended to draw us onto an inner path, the eastward path, toward the Christ who is to come again. Its dynamism is ‘identical’ with the dynamism of the liturgy as a whole… In the liturgy the curtain between heaven and earth is torn open, and we are taken up into a liturgy that spans the whole cosmos.” The Divine Mercy image portrays Christ coming to us from Heaven and opening up that curtain and bestowing upon us His inexhaustible grace and mercy. .................

Jesus told us that the two rays in the Divine Mercy image denote the Blood and Waterthat gushed from His Heart, which was opened by a lance on the Cross. The Blood(denotes the Eucharist) which is the life of souls, and the Water (Baptism) that makessouls righteous. Jesus also indicated that we would receive graces from these images...(http://www.mercysunday.com/pdf/Pope_Benedict_and_the_Divine_Mercy_Image_9.pdf)

Another e book I'm reading regarding this is "God's Radiation Therapy - A PRIEST, A Bio-Chemist - A Hermit Reflects on the Eucharist." by none else but Rev. George W Kosicki C.S.B. He writes:

During a period of exhaustion and too much traveling I was challenged
by Fr. Kevin Scallon, C.M. and Sr. Briege McKenna, P.C.C. at a retreat in
Larchmont, NewYork to take extended time of presence before the Eucharist,
that grew into three hours per day. It was a time of “radiation therapy”. This
exposure to the radiance of the Holy Eucharist continued in my initial time
of hermitage with the Camaldolese hermits in Bloomingdale, Ohio. It was
during that period of time I was challenged by the saintly prior Fr. Charles
Kubsz E.C. to move into the Divine Mercy message and devotion full time.

https://www.renewalministries.net/files/freeliterature/God%20Radiation%20Therapy%20corr4-08.pdf

That's all for today. Let me immerse myself in these cyber books.