{"id":6298,"date":"2023-04-08T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2023-04-10T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:58:44","slug":"divine-mercy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/2023\/04\/08\/divine-mercy-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>All are Welcome<\/h3>\n<h2>Sunday, April 16th<\/h2>\n<h2>KC Pancake Breakfast served after 10:30 Mass<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Starts at <strong>12:45pm<\/strong> in Fr. Zenk Hall &#8211; Video \u201cThe Face of Mercy\u201d <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Learn about the message of Divine Mercy, as revealed to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">St. Faustina, with a one-hour video.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>At <strong>2:00pm<\/strong> We will move into the Main Church for the following:<\/li>\n<li>Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction<\/li>\n<li>Devotional prayers, including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy<\/li>\n<li>Confessions 2:00\u20143:30 pm<\/li>\n<li>Rosary<\/li>\n<li>Veneration of the Divine Mercy Image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>** St. Faustina\u2019s 1st Class relic is in the adoration chapel to be venerated at any time.<\/p>\n<h2>How should we prepare for this great Feast of Mercy?<\/h2>\n<p>Participate in praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet Novena starting Good Friday, April 7th through Saturday, April 15th.<br \/>\nThe Image of The Divine Mercy, which Our Lord requested to be solemnly blessed and venerated on this day, will be<br \/>\non display in our church. Pope John Paul 11 said that the image portrays the Risen Jesus Christ bringing Mercy to the whole<br \/>\nworld. <\/p>\n<p>Our Lord said <strong>&#8220;I want the image to be solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, and I want it to be<br \/>\nvenerated publicly so that every soul may know about it. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image<br \/>\nwill not perish&#8221;.<\/strong> (Diary 341, 48) <\/p>\n<p>Please take the time to visit with this Image of The Divine Mercy and venerate Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>First Class relic of St. Faustina is in Adoration Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.DivineMercy.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.DivineMercy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to encourage everyone to take advantage of this incredible promise and the additional Plenary Indulgence<br \/>\non this great Feast of Mercy, \u201cDivine Mercy Sunday.\u201d We want you to benefit fully from these promises, and we also<br \/>\nwant you to notify all of your family and friends about them too and urge them to join us in prayer!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>SPECIAL DIVINE MERCY PLENARY INDULGENCE<\/h2>\n<p>Decree In 2002 Holy Father Pope St. John Paul II decreed a special plenary indulgence for<br \/>\nthose who take part in the prayers and devotions held in honor of Divine Mercy on<br \/>\nthe Sunday following Easter. (If someone is unable to attend these special prayers and<br \/>\ndevotions, they may recite the Our Father and the Creed before the Blessed Sacrament,<br \/>\nadding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus such as &#8220;Merciful Jesus, I trust in<br \/>\nyou!&#8221;) To gain the plenary indulgence, the usual conditions apply, namely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We can only gain a plenary indulgence once a day.<\/li>\n<li>We must be in the state of grace; that is to say, we must have confessed all mortal sins<br \/>\nthat we are aware of.<\/li>\n<li>We should receive Communion the same day if possible, or at least within a few days.<\/li>\n<li>We should pray for the Pope in whatever way we choose but it is recommended we pray<br \/>\none &#8220;Our Father&#8221; and one &#8220;Hail Mary.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We should go to Confession within a few days before or after receiving the indulgence, or<br \/>\nat least within 20 days. One confession can count towards multiple plenary indulgences,<br \/>\nbut each plenary indulgence requires a separate new reception of Communion and<br \/>\nprayer for the Pope.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Clarifications<\/strong><br \/>\n*We can apply a plenary indulgence to ourselves or a soul in purgatory, but not to another<br \/>\nliving person.<br \/>\n*If we wish to apply the plenary indulgence to ourselves, we must be completely detached<br \/>\nfrom all sin, mortal or venial. This does not mean that we never sin but rather that our<br \/>\nhearts must be dead set against choosing the foolishness of man&#8217;s ways over the grace and<br \/>\nwisdom of God&#8217;s ways, even if it means suffering the price of righteousness in our jobs,<br \/>\nrelationships and personal lives. For example, if we convince ourselves that it is not a big<br \/>\ndeal to tell white lies to get out of awkward situations or to harbor resentments towards<br \/>\npeople because their behavior does not live up to our judgmental standards, we are still<br \/>\nattached to sin. Similarly, sinful addictions to pornography, alcohol, drugs, gambling or<br \/>\nstealing money reveal an attachment to sin. If, however, we are employing every resource<br \/>\navailable to overcome these addictions, such as following a recovery program, having an<br \/>\naccountability partner and restructuring our lives to avoid the people and places that<br \/>\nenable us to sin, then we can say in good faith that we are not attached to those sins.<br \/>\n*Souls in purgatory have no attachment to sin because they are assured of their eternal<br \/>\nsalvation. A plenary indulgence will free them of the spiritual sufferings required to purify<br \/>\nthem for the holiness of heaven.<br \/>\n*St. Louis de Montfort encourages Catholics to entrust all indulgences to the<br \/>\nadministration of our Blessed Mother. If we trust Mother Mary to apply the indulgences<br \/>\nwe earn in this life to those souls in Purgatory who most need it, how much more will she<br \/>\nreward our trust by finding indulgences and special graces for us and our loved ones when<br \/>\nin need?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Recommended Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/tribunals\/apost_penit\/documents\/rc_trib_appen_doc_20020629_decree-ii_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Decree on Divine Mercy Sunday<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/tribunals\/apost_penit\/documents\/rc_trib_appen_pro_20000129_indulgence_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vatican Guidelines on Plenary Indulgences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/prayers-and-devotions\/prayers\/popular-devotional-practices-basic-questions-and-answers.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic Conference of Bishops Q&amp;A (including indulgences)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration &#8211; Feast of Mercy ~ April 16th, 2023<br \/>\nPlenary Indulgence Granted by St. Pope John Paul II <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6298"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6893,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions\/6893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescathroch.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}