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Short Primer on the Mass
A while ago a Lutheran attended Mass with me. To prepare him in advance for what he was going to experience, I put together this short “Primer on the Mass.” I hope you find it helpful and useful. Pleases share if with family and friends if you think it could help them to understand.
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Divine Mercy Sunday in Divine Mercy Chapel in Poland! Join us in April 2025
We couldn’t believe that we got tickets for the actual Divine Mercy Mass at the Chapel with the Sisters on Divine Mercy Sunday 2025. This is an incredible opportunity.
Click here for the interactive map, itinerary, and brochure. The dates for this “Modern Saints of Poland Pilgrimage” are April 23-May 2, 2025.
We will especially follow Maximillian Kolbe, Maria Faustina and Pope John Paul II. We will also visit the death cell of Fr. Kolbe in Auschwitz.
Mary Saw Mercy… so real and visible and close it may have splashed on her face.
In April 2025 we are taking a group of pilgrims to Poland for Divine Mercy Sunday to celebrate Divine Mercy and the Divine Mercy Shrine with the Sisters of Maria Faustina!!
So, I thought I would share this meditation on the Divine Mercy of God.
Mary knew mercy. Mary saw mercy. The mercy was so real and visible and close it may have splashed on her face. Sister Faustina’s Divine Mercy shows the blood and water springing from the side of Christ, the fountain of mercy. Mary stood at the foot of the Cross where the blood and water flowed from her Son’s side.
Mercy became flesh in Mary’s womb in Nazareth; Mary gave birth to Mercy in Bethlehem; she raised her Son and lived with Mercy for thirty years before sending him out to be and show mercy for three years.
Then she saw the ultimate Mercy demonstrated in such a divine and human manner— the Son of God, her own son, hanging on the Cross to make mercy available to all people.
John 19:34 “But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.”
Imagine standing in all these places in the Holy Land when we go and celebrating it here with the nuns at the bones of St. Maria Faustina where we will pray the Divine Mercy with the sisters today. Imagine eating the Body and Blood of Our Lord — mercy itself — in the very places he showed us what mercy was. Join us Poland for Divine Mercy Sunday in Poland with the Sister of Maria Faustina in April 2025.
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