The Church calls us higher through the lives of the saints, through one person after another who experienced the mercy of God and knew he had to bring that mercy to the world. When we hear these stories, we begin to realize
An upcoming celebration of the Divine Mercy devotion focuses in particular on the Eucharist and on the need for "spiritual fatherhood."
Some 15,000 pilgrims are expected at the annual Divine Mercy Sunday Weekend, which takes place April 6-7 at the National Shrine of
Father Patrick Briscoe shares an encounter he had with a drunken man on the streets of a foreign neighborhood and how it led to deeper prayer: “I pretended I didn’t hear him. His faint cry drifted over the four lanes of traffic.
A reader writes: I have been reading St. Faustina’s diary and have been saying the novena of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for some years now. When saying these prayers, I always wonder why we need to pray for meek and humble
Divine Mercy Sunday opens the "floodgates of mercy" for all through the sacraments of confession and holy Communion, said a priest renowned for promoting the liturgical feast and its accompanying devotion.
"A soul that's been to confession and receives holy Communion (on that
As our culture wrestles with sexual confusion, it’s easy to forget the chaos within — the myriad ways we have been pierced by sexual disintegration in our own lives. Each of us bears the wound. For people like Andrew Comiskey — who
The Divine Mercy novena originates from mercy himself: Jesus Christ. “The novena is one of the elements of devotion to the Divine Mercy that Jesus gave to St. Faustina,” Fr. Matthew Tomeny, the rector of the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy
The mercy shown by God to his children can transform hearts and makes Christians become channels of that mercy to those in need, Pope Francis said.
"In the midst of our own crises and our difficulties, divine mercy often makes us aware of
On the Second Sunday of Easter, also known as Divine Mercy Sunday, the Church celebrates the boundless love that Christ has for us. As he prepares us for Mass in Opening the Word Scripture reflection, Father Joshua Whitfield writes that “Divine Mercy
Divine Mercy Sunday, April 24, marks the two-month anniversary of Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Since the first rockets were launched in late February, the United Nations reported that, as of April 10, nearly 2,000 Ukrainian civilians have died and another 2,500