Divine Mercy - for the sake of His sorrowful Passion

The Feast of Divine Mercy (Divine Mercy Sunday) was promoted and commended by Pope John Paul II in the Jubiliee year of 2000 at the Mass for the Canonization of Sister Faustina Kowalska.  Sister Faustina was a Polish nun and mystic whose private revelations regarding the merciful Love of God made manifest in His passion and resurrection have inspired millions to a deep devotion.  Divine Mercy Sunday is traditionally the first Sunday after Easter and begins on Good Friday with the praying of the Devine Mercy Novena.

OLPH will celebrate the Divine Mercy beginning on Good Friday with the Novena intention and Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3pm in the church.  A Divine Mercy Service with the full recitation of the Chaplet will be held immediately following Noon Mass on Sunday, April 18.  Please attend and bring your family to take part of this deep and meaningful devotion.

"On each day of the novena you will bring to My Heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy... On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the graces for these souls. By this novena I will grant every possible grace to souls." (Diary of Sr. Faustina 1209, 796)