On Palm Sunday, as the Church marks the beginning of Holy Week, we will once again hear the Gospel account of Jesus Christ’s passion and death — how he was betrayed by Judas, condemned by the crowd, whipped, mocked, crowned with thorns,
In her latest Openers column, associate editor Ava Lalor gives an update on how her Lent has been going. About midway through Lent, a couple conversations helped her to realize that she wanted something more out of the season. While she had
In a reflection for Divine Mercy Sunday, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert writes that contemplating God as a God of both justice and mercy can seem paradoxical. He writes: “But God, of course, is constant in his will. If he is, as
Marking the 90th anniversary of the apparition of Jesus to St. Faustina Kowalska, Pope Francis wrote a letter to Catholics in Poland expressing his hope that Christ's message of divine mercy would remain "alive in the hearts of the faithful."
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This year, for the first time, managing editor Scott Warden and his family prayed the Divine Mercy Novena together. Scott writes: “I’d never really spent much time with the Divine Mercy devotion until this year. I’ve seen the Divine Mercy image hundreds
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, supreme chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, will celebrate a special livestreamed Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19, at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the
As we prepare to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, Father Scott Jablonski writes: “I do not mean to imply that I have some infallible knowledge that the coronavirus pandemic is a punishment from God. It may very well be. But perhaps it is
Through revelations to three holy women — Sts. Juliana of Cornillon, Margaret Mary Alacoque and Faustina Kowalska — the Church celebrates Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy
In the early 2000s, Chris Alar was enjoying the good life. He was living in the Lake Norman area of North Carolina and had a nice home on the water, a successful consulting business and was engaged to “the most beautiful girl
Every year, on the first Sunday after Easter, we celebrate God’s mercy, which is greater than any sin we may ever commit. This feast day, known as Divine Mercy Sunday, was established 17 years ago by Pope St. John Paul II and