This Second Sunday of Easter has been established as Divine Mercy Sunday. Saint John Paul II recognized the power and importance of the special devotion to Divine Mercy for our Church and world. If you don’t know about the practice of Divine Mercy here is a little excerpt from the Marian Fathers who run the National Shrine of Divine Mercy:
The Divine Mercy message is one we can call to mind simply by remembering ABC:
A– Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.
B– Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.
C– Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that all the graces of His mercy can only be received by our trust. The more we open the door of our hearts and lives to Him with trust, the more we can receive.
This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun, who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received about God’s mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread.
There is a little Chaplet of Divine Mercy that is prayed using our Rosary beads and this weekend we have a chance to pray a little bit of it together at the end of Mass.
God love you!
Fr. Matt
P.S.: I will be away next weekend for an out-of-town wedding.
Join us this Spring to learn how to grow your own salad greens.
Start your own "instant" garden that you take and set up at home.
We provide containers, potting soil, and starter plants at no charge!
Lettuce, kale, spinach, chard, etc.
This is a “cutting” garden, meaning you start harvesting within a few weeks, and keep cutting salad leaves until the summer heat hits hard.
Then restart your garden in September.
All you need is water for the garden and scissors to cut your greens.
Interested?
Meet by the Woodbourne lot after Mass the weekend of April 30th and May 1st to help.
We’ll stay in touch by email and provide help along the way. You can do it!
For more info. or to reserve your supplies, contact Barbara at 410-433-2300, ext. 104 or [email protected]