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Divine Mercy Sunday
Let Us Pray!
The Novena of Divine Mercy & The Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Starts Good Friday (this year April 6th) and ends Divine Mercy Sunday (April 15th). Join us April 15th at 3:00pm in the church for the concluding prayers of the novena lead by Fr. Benny. Quick Links Who is St. Faustina?
Feast Day: Oct. 5th
b. 1905 - d. 1938 Saint Faustina was born Helena Kowalska in a small village west of Lodz, Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of ten children. When she was almost twenty, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, whose members devote themselves to the care and education of troubled young women. Read more... May is Responding to God's Blessings Month
During the month of May we will be thinking on the many ways God has blessed us, our families and how we individually and as a parish have blessed others. Parish School of Religion students have been invited to enter a Art and Poetry Contest, reflecting on how they have been blessed or have blessed others.
Sunday, May 8th - Stories and Statistics will be provided at all Masses about what we do as a parish Saturday, May 21st - Free Parish Breakfast 8am to 12noon in Fr. O'Hare Hall, PSR student artwork will be on display Sunday, May 22nd - We will recognize our art and poetry contest winners and Fr. Illo will share on the importance of reflecting on blessings. Spiritual Reading on Divine Mercy
Pope Benedict's Homily from the Beatification Mass of Blessed John Paul II (Divine Mercy Sunday 2011)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Six years ago we gathered in this Square to celebrate the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Our grief at his loss was deep, but even greater was our sense of an immense grace which embraced Rome and the whole world: a grace which was in some way the fruit of my beloved predecessor’s entire life, and especially of his witness in suffering. Even then we perceived the fragrance of his sanctity, and in any number of ways God’s People showed their veneration for him. For this reason, with all due respect for the Church’s canonical norms, I wanted his cause of beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. And now the longed-for day has come; it came quickly because this is what was pleasing to the Lord: John Paul II is blessed! I would like to offer a cordial greeting to all of you who on this happy occasion have come in such great numbers to Rome from all over the world – cardinals, patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches, brother bishops and priests, official delegations, ambassadors and civil authorities, consecrated men and women and lay faithful, and I extend that greeting to all those who join us by radio and television. Today is the Second Sunday of Easter, which Blessed John Paul II entitled Divine Mercy Sunday. The date was chosen for today’s celebration because, in God’s providence, my predecessor died on the vigil of this feast. Today is also the first day of May, Mary’s month, and the liturgical memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker. All these elements serve to enrich our prayer, they help us in our pilgrimage through time and space; but in heaven a very different celebration is taking place among the angels and saints! Even so, God is but one, and one too is Christ the Lord, who like a bridge joins earth to heaven. At this moment we feel closer than ever, sharing as it were in the liturgy of heaven. Click here for full message |
