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

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	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

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Divine Mercy Novena Begins on Good Friday

 

The Message of Divine Mercy

Divine Mercy

Chaplet of Divine Mercy

THE DIVINE MERCY NOVENA BEGINS ON GOOD FRIDAY.

Divine Mercy Devotion and Novena

Apostles of Divine Mercy

Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet for Pro-Life Causes

[NYer]

Jesus, I Trust In You

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Jezu ufam tobie.

[pravknight]

I have a strong objection to the Feast of the Divine Mercy's replacement of Low Sunday on the Roman Calendar because it disrupts the paschal season.

The Paschal Season is a season of joy and commemoration of Christ's victory over death. It's not a time for the penitential self-flagellation of the Divine Mercy chaplet.

If it belongs anywhere on the Roman Calendar, its during Lent, not Pascha.

That's not to mention that all of the Popes between Pius XI and Paul VI suppressed the Divine Mercy cult as spurious.
http://www.divinewill.org/Biographies%20-%20Biography%20of%20Luisa%20by%20Fr.%20Sanguiao.htm

I pray that some future pope will have the foresight to suppress it. I am glad that Byzantine Catholics do not celebrate it publicly.

Happy Low Sunday:
http://www.breviary.net/propseason/easter/propseasoneast1.htm

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Blood and water

Yes, it belongs on this Sunday.

It's about God's forgiveness.

What were two of the five last words of Christ?

"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

"Today you will be with me in paradise." (to the good thief)

What is the main theme of this Sunday's readings?

"Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain are retained."

Don't you see the pattern? It's about the most joyous gift of Christ's death on the Cross -- His gift of forgiveness.

[pravknight]

It's a penitential devotion that disrupts the celebration of the Risen Christ, not Christ crucified.

It belongs maybe in Lent or some other Sunday, not during the Paschal season.

[Nihil Obstat]

You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fountain of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of mercy for us, I trust in You.

[GirlShortstop]

It belongs maybe in Lent or some other Sunday, not during the Paschal season.

What JESUS wants, JESUS gets:

Jesus, I trust in You.

Novena to the Divine Mercy
which Jesus instructed me to write down and make before the Feast of Mercy. It begins on Good Friday....

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No soul will be justified until it turns with confidence to My mercy, and this is why the first Sunday after Easter is to be the Feast of Mercy....

St Faustina's diary

Pax et bonum

[Salvation]

Thank you!

[Salvation]

Thank you for that quote from St. Faustina's diary!

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Additional information about Divine Mercy Sunday:

Catholic Culture

Collect:
God of mercy, you wash away our sins in water, you give us new birth in the Spirit, and redeem us in the blood of Christ. As we celebrate Christ's resurrection increase our awareness of these blessings, and renew your gift of life within us. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Recipes:

• » Easter Soup with Leftover Lamb

Activities:

• » Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday
• » The Feast of Mercy
• » The Image of the Divine Mercy
• » The Three O'Clock Hour

Prayers:

• » Prayers for the Easter Season
• » The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy
• » Divine Mercy Novena

April 23, 2006

Divine Mercy Sunday

"I shall sing forever the Lord's mercy." (Ps 89 [88]) This Sunday is popularly known as Mercy of God Sunday. Between 1930 and 1938 Christ appeared to Sister Faustina, a Sister of Mercy in Poland who initiated the Divine Mercy devotion. She was canonized on April 30, 2000, the Sunday after Easter, the Feast of Divine Mercy. On Good Friday, 1937, Jesus requested that Blessed Faustina make a special novena before the Feast of Mercy, from Good Friday through the following Saturday. Jesus also asked that a picture be painted according to the vision of Himself as the fountain of mercy. He gave her a chaplet to be recited and said that it was appropriate to pray the chaplet at three o'clock each afternoon (the Hour of Great Mercy).

The last stational procession is held at the Church of St. Pancras. Those newly baptized are now full fledged members of the Christian community. This church is most appropriate since St. Pancras was a young man of fourteen who sealed his baptismal promises with his blood.

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Jesus to Sr. Faustina
On one occasion, I heard these words: My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity. The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy.

[Let] the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy. My daughter, write about My mercy towards tormented souls. Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on the contrary, I justify him in My unfathomable and inscrutable mercy. Write: before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice.

From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the whole world about My mercy.

Excerpted from Diary of Sr. M. Faustina Kowalska.

Things to Do:

• Read the Apostolic Peniteniary Decree on the Indulgences attached to devotions in honour of Divine Mercy

• Read Dives in misericordia, the encyclical Letter of John Paul II on Mercy.

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**From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the whole world about My mercy.

Excerpted from Diary of Sr. M. Faustina Kowalska.**

Christ's mercy comes after His wounds -- therefore after Easter and the Resurrection.

Aquestion for you --
"When we see Christ in heaven, will He still have His wounds?"

I think so, because even in His changed appearance He showed His wounds to the apostles! Hopefully we will all see them too!

[pravknight]

"For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us" is hardly fitting for the paschal season.

Compared with the resurrection hymns of the Byzantine rite:
"Christ is risen from the dead, by death trampling death, and to those in the graves granting life."

"By death, by death you conquered death."

We aren't supposed to be commemorating Christ's wounds during Pascha, but rather, his victory over death.

I also have a serious problem with basing a feast of the church, even if it is only a feast of the Latin Church, on a private "revelation."

I personally do not believe Faustina's "revelation" was anything of the kind.

[roamer]

The Feast of Mercy (Divine Mercy Sunday)

Jesus said to St. Faustina:

I desire that there be a Feast of Mercy. I want this image, which you will paint with a brush, to be
solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter; that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy. (Diary, 49)

I desire that this image be displayed in public on the first Sunday after Easter. That Sunday is the
Feast of Mercy. Through the Word Incarnate I make known the bottomless depth of My mercy. (Diary, 88)

I desire that the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy. (Diary, 299)

And who knows anything about this feast? No one! Even those who should be proclaiming My mercy and
teaching people about it often do not know about it themselves. That is why I want the image to be
solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, and I want it to be venerated publicly so that every soul may know about it. (Diary, 341)

No soul will be justified until it turns with confidence to My mercy, and this is why the first Sunday
after Easter is to be the Feast of Mercy. On that day, priest are to tell everyone about My great and
unfathomable mercy. (Diary, 570)

Yes, The first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be acts of mercy, and I demand the worship of My mercy through the solemn celebration of the Feast and through the veneration of the image which is painted. By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. (Diary, 742)




copied from The Foundation of the Divine Mercy Sanctuary ("... Rev. Ignacy Rozycki, STD - his research was part of the official investigation into St. Faustina's life...", copied from Understanding Divine Mercy Sunday, pdf file - page 19)
[ http://www.sanktuarium.krakow.pl/english/04c.html ]
[ http://www.marian.org/divinemercy/understanddms.html ]


I desire that the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy (Diary 299) - the Lord Jesus said to Sr. Faustina. In the following years, Jesus returned to this demand in as many as 14 different apparitions, establishing very clearly the location of this Feast in the Church's liturgical calendar, and defining the reason and objective of its institution, the manner in which preparations for it and the celebration itself were to be conducted.
( http://www.sanktuarium.krakow.pl/english/04c.html )

[pravknight]

If you ask me, private revelation is the work of demons or at least the work of Sr. Faustina's imagination. I don't believe it's from Christ. Explain to me why Sr. Faustina's diary was suppressed by every pope prior to JP2.

Her diary even was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books.

All revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.

I stand my ground, the Divine Mercy has no place on the Church calendar during Pascha.

At least it's not Divine Mercy Sunday on the Byzantine Calendar. We at least still celebrate Thomas Sunday.

[Salvation]

So can we agree to disagree?

BTW, Christ is celebrating his wounds by showing them to the apostles and a week later to Thomas.

[pravknight]

A local devotion under the title of "Divine Mercy" was approved by the Ordinary of Vilnius in 1936 and from there spread rapidly, especially after World War II in the United States. It appears that Sr. Faustina could not write, save a few lines phonetically. Most of her "diary" was concocted by her sisters after her death. Because of the incongruities of the dairy (different handwriting, different use of terms), the devotion was suppressed, and the book of her diary was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum [Index of Forbidden Books]. This decision was upheld by Pope John XXIII in 1958/59. In early 1978, a Polish cardinal petitioned the Vatican to remove the suppression of the devotion, which was being practiced without sanction in his diocese, and the Vatican replied in the negative, confirming the suppression.

[Salvation]

So when was it approved?

[pravknight]

It was approved by JP2 shortly after he became pope. From what I had read, he had been trying to get his predecessors to approve it for years prior to acceding to the papacy.

Considering that private revelations are non-binding. We can agree to disagree about its authenticity.

Byzantine Christianity is 100 percent opposed to "private revelations" of any kind. Actually, the Roman Church's acceptance of it is an ecumenical obstacle with the Orthodox.