• The Evangelizing Power of Mercy "Speak to them of the great mercy of God....Sometimes people are helped by the telling of your own lamentable past." (St. Francis Xavier) His missionary work spoke to the evangelizing power of mercy. How can your own experience of God's mercy help to draw others closer to Christ? We are invited to keep God's mercy at the forefront of everything we do. And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” (Mark 5:19)