Even those who heard of these things would do well with a timely reminder because both the reason and the promises seem even more urgent and vital today. Why would we want to ignore trusting the ...

The feast of Divine Mercy is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter and is associated with the prayer of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, a pious practice revealed to the Polish St. Maria Faustina ...

On Wednesday, Catholics recited the Divine Mercy Chaplet in the streets of 173 cities in Poland and 44 localities worldwide, according to organizers of the prayer event. At 3 p.m. local time, street ...

FAIRBANKS — In 1933, St. Faustina, then a Polish nun and mystic, had a vision of an impending chastisement. In the vision, an angel of the Lord was to strike at a unnamed city. St. Faustina began ...

On May 5, 2000, only five days after the canonization of Saint Faustina, Saint Pope John Paul II decreed that the Second Sunday of Easter would be known as Divine Mercy Sunday. In 1931 while the world ...

For many centuries the Sunday after Easter was known as “Low Sunday” in contrast to the High Sunday of Easter. However, in recent years, this same Sunday has been given another name and another ...

Among Catholic devotions, the Divine Mercy message is well-known: the iconic image of Christ, with rays of red and white pouring from his heart; St. Faustina, called the "Apostle of Divine Mercy;" and ...

Everything in the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Holy Bible speak of God’s unfathomable love and mercy — His justice is His Mercy. On April 30, 2000, Pope John Paul II declared, during the ...