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This is my fourth year of saying the Divine Mercy Novena starting on Good Friday, but I say the chaplet quite often, almost every day. My mom got me started on it, and I have given a novena booklet this year to a dear friend who is struggling mightily to stay Catholic, and I fear may lose the battle. I am offering the novena this year for her and her family, that God might touch their hearts and renew their faith. I humbly ask for any prayers you could offer for them.

Sandyeggo,

I'm glad to hear that you say the Chaplet almost every day. As I mentioned before, the Divine Mercy devotion has saved my prayer life, and since the end of last July/beginning of last August, I have been saying the Chaplet almost every day, in most instance at 3 pm, the Hour of Great Mercy. Starting more recently, I now say a prayer that Saint Faustina wrote in her Diary for sinner before I say the Chaplet too. On one of the instances that I didn't get to say the Chaplet at 3 pm recently, I said it during the 9 pm hour, and then when I went downstairs, and saw my dad was watching the news, it immediately became clear to me that the Chaplet I had just prayed was for the brave men and women who were going into harm's way that night, for it was the night of the first strike on Iraq. It's amazing how God works, isn't it?

Thanks for all the nice comments I have received from you concerning my internship. I hope I am able to get a more permanent position someplace because of it. Please keep me in my prayers, for I have to scramble to get ready to start, because my first day is April 28th, and I have to find a place to live and make other arrangments. May God grant me the strength and whatever else I need to carry out my task. Happy Easter everyone, and may God continue to bless everyone on FR.

Dear Pyro, Congratulations. My mother Siobhan says she is very happy for you and very proud. She is taking care of last minute details for the big move Down Under the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday. My grandmother, father, three littlest siblings, my mother, and one of my brothers are all going. Please say a Chaplet for them. I am very grateful that my father found a job -- and a good one at that. But selfishly I want them all to stay here. But I have my brood, Finn and Aileen, and other family about. One of the blessings of a large Irish Catholic family.

God bless you, dear Pyro. And I will say a Chaplet for you and the start of your internship. I am extremely proud of you.