Feast of The Divine Mercy - April 23, 2006 - EWTN Program Listing

EWTN ^ | April 22, 2006

[NYer]

	FAUSTINA (90:00) Feature film drama depicting the life of Sr. Faustina. Polish with English subtitles. Saturday April 22, 2006 8:00 PM Sunday April 23, 2006 2:00 AM Thursday April 27, 2006 1:00 PM
	DIVINE MERCY PREVIEW SHOW (60:00) Sunday April 23, 2006 12:00 PM LIVE Sunday April 23, 2006 8:00 PM ENCORE SOLEMN MASS AND CELEBRATION OF DIVINE MERCY FROM STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.  (2 1/2 hours) Celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy with EWTN and the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. This feast commemorates God's infinite love and mercy, which He continues to pour out to the world. Sunday April 23, 2006 1:00 PM LIVE Sunday April 23, 2006 9:00 PM ENCORE DIVINE MERCY CELEBRATION FROM THE SHRINE OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT IN HANCEVILLE, ALABAMA, U.S.A.  (60:00) Join the Nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery for this celebration of God's Mercy. Sunday April 23, 2006 4:00 PM LIVE Monday April 24, 2006 1:30 AM ENCORE Monday April 24, 2006 2:30 PM ENCORE Thursday April 27, 2006 3:30 AM ENCORE A TIME FOR MERCY (60:00) Examine events of the last century with narrator Joseph Campanella and see what the promises given by Jesus to a humble Polish nun have to do with the signs of our times. Learn more about God's overflowing Mercy in every age, and how He sends messengers - such as Sr. Faustina - to tell people how they can experience this most important attribute of the Godhead. Sunday April 23, 2006 5 PM THE BEATIFICATION OF SISTER FAUSTINA JOIN THE CELEBRATION (30:00) Devotion to the Divine Mercy of Jesus came from war-torn Poland through the message of Sister Faustina. On April 18, 1993, millions gathered in St. Peter's Square to witness Pope John Paul II beatified Sister Faustina and to proclaim her Feast Day as October 5th. Relive this historic event. Sunday April 23, 2006 6 PM SISTER FAUSTINA - THE PROMISE OF MERCY (30:00) This documentary tells the story of Blessed Sister Faustina and how Our Lord gave her the devotion to His Divine Mercy. He asked her to promulgate it throughout the world. Sunday April 23, 2006 11:30 PM   CHAPLET OF THE DIVINE MERCY IN SONG (30:00) This video is a contemporary, fresh version of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy - a prayer that pleads God's mercy on the whole world. The video was filmed live at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Monday April 24, 2006 6:30 PM

[GirlShortstop]

Myself, I think that Christ's Divine Mercy is a cause for great joy.

Absolutely!   Methinks ignorance or sinfulness would keep one from seeing it otherwise.   Cardinal Rigali gave a beautiful homily about Divine Mercy's perfect compliment to the celebration of the second Sunday of Easter.  Think of how the sinful and cowardly Apostles were huddled in the locked room -- and Jesus' first words: "Peace be with you" -- His Mercy [shown them] *is* His Love -- the Love of Our Victorious Redeemer!  He didn't lecture, or admonish, He showed His Mercy.   Joy, indeed.   Pax et bonum.

[Pyro7480]

Jesus' death on the cross was not sorrowful, it was the veiled victory completed on the third day.

He definitely experienced sorrow during his last hours on earth.

Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called Gethsemani; and he said to his disciples: Sit you here, till I go yonder and pray. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay you here, and watch with me.
-Matthew 26: 36-38

[pravknight]

I am approaching the mystery of the Passion from a patristic sense that views it not in a personal sense, but from a broader perspective.

My main opposition to this "Divine Mercy" is that it distracts, in my opinion, from the focus on the resurrection.

I would have far less of a problem with it, if it were an extra-liturgical devotion during Holy Week or during Lent when the focus is upon Christ's passion.

On Pascha and for 40 days afterward Christ walked among us in a testimony of his victory over the Cross. Focusing on the the crucifixion during the season of the resurrection is misplaced, and I stand by that.

If the Divine Mercy celebrated the joy of the resurrection, I would probably have less of a problem with it.

I still pray that a future pope will do what many previous popes have done with certain feasts, suppress it or translate it to another Sunday.