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Five Ways to Celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday at Home
I’ve heard about the devotion to Divine Mercy many times, but I’d never really taken the time to look into it deeply before — after all, our Church has so many devotions, and it seemed like just another one to add to my list. Now that I’ve done the research, however, I feel pretty passionate about celebrating this feast every year. Divine Mercy Sunday is just that awesome. Divine Mercy Sunday was instituted by Pope John Paul II, but it was an obscure Polish nun named St. Faustina Kowalska who would be the conduit for Jesus’s message of mercy to the world. The things Faustina wrote about in her journal…
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9 Holy Week Traditions You Can Do From Home
This Lent has been a particularly unique one, namely because of the Coronavirus pandemic that has caused many dioceses to cancel Mass around the world. It feels almost fitting that this should all happen during Lent — that we should be forced to fast from the keystone of our faith during the period in our liturgical year when fasting is most appropriate. These events have forced many of us as Catholics to think more deeply about the Mass, the Sacraments, and their importance in our lives. As with any fasting, our abstinence from the Eucharist hasn’t been easy — and we are still only in the first few weeks. During…
