Divine Mercy image in Chicago's Daly Plaza reaching thousands

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Divine Mercy image in Chicago’s Daly Plaza reaching thousands
Chicago, Ill., Apr 27, 2011 / 06:08 am (CNA).- One of the fastest-growing devotions in the Catholic Church is reaching the heart of downtown Chicago through the work of the Heralds of Divine Mercy. The organization is publicly displaying a large image of Christ during a nine-day campaign of 24-hour prayer and evangelism.
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“The Divine Mercy Project is really about having an opportunity to witness to the culture, in environments we’re normally pushed out of,” said Michael C.X. Sullivan, a 40-year-old lawyer who developed the idea earlier this year. “It’s specifically for the conversion of Chicago, America, and the world.”
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The prayer vigil is taking place in Daly Plaza, a crowded area that features a number of civil administrative buildings. There, the Heralds of Divine Mercy are displaying a large cross along with a ten-foot-tall image of Christ based on the visions of St. Faustina Kowalska. While some participants remain in prayer, others take their turn distributing cards that promote the message of God’s mercy.
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Sullivan said his five-year-old son had become an enthusiastic evangelist, along with the many other participants who have manned the image in shifts all day and night. “He shoots out across Daly Plaza,” Sullivan said, “running right up to people and giving them the card.”
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“Most people receive it, and look at it, and you see their countenance shift – there’s a kind of a brightening. However, you also see a real darkness in some people, a hardness in them. So we say a prayer for them, if they don’t want to receive this gift.”
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CNA caught up with Sullivan on April 25, the fourth day of the campaign. During the afternoon, a “Life Mob” of about 50 pro-life Catholic young people had showed up with a large “rosary” made of dozens of helium filled balloons.
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The young participants held down the large chain of balloons as they recited the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, a prayer that is associated with the image and typically prayed on rosary beads.
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“Then they let go of all these balloons,” Sullivan recalled, “so there was this rosary floating up in the sky in front of city hall, in front of this icon of political corruption.”
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“I broke out in laughter – it was just awesome.”
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As a Catholic, raised by by a Irish mother, who had a Irish mother, who was a single woman who raised 3 children by herself, without any governmental entity helping, I find today’s culture in the United States a very difficult thing to digest. I was at Mass on Tuesday, and at the Consecration, I felt, experienced, was overwhelmed by Divine Mercy. Thank you Jesus. Thank you God. Thank you Holy Spirit.
 
Your efforts to spread the Divine Mercy message of hope and mercy in a place like Chicago with all the political corruption that has taken place there is outstanding. You are a remarkable group of people. Jesus is truly smiling down at the world. Do you have National TV coverage? I haven’t seen any coverage on TV yet.

Love from peaceful, beautiful, Oskaloosa, Kansas
Lori Coffey Smith
 
It’s a public square, I wonder how they were able to put this up without some sort of ‘outrage’?
 
LoriCoffeySmith said:
Your efforts to spread the Divine Mercy message of hope and mercy in a place like Chicago with all the political corruption that has taken place there is outstanding. You are a remarkable group of people. Jesus is truly smiling down at the world. Do you have National TV coverage? I haven’t seen any coverage on TV yet.

Love from peaceful, beautiful, Oskaloosa, Kansas
Lori Coffey Smith
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I live in Chicago and this is sadly the first I’ve heard anything about this. I don’t think it got a lot of coverage; as far as chuch news goes, the only stories of intrest I’ve heard were about Pope John Paul’s beatification and the on-going row between Father Pfleger and the Cardinal. I wish this event had gotten more publicity, I would have loved to go down town and pray also. 😦
 
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It’s a public square, I wonder how they were able to put this up without some sort of ‘outrage’?
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My first thought.🤷 Regardless, what a FANTASTIC SIGHT!!! Sometimes you just have to throw your hat to the wind and say…whatever, we’re gettin 'er done.👍 Brought tears to my eyes and shivers down my spine! LOVE, LOVE, LOVED IT!!!

Recalling the words of “Blessed” John Paul ll…BE NOT AFRAID!
 
what a FANTASTIC SIGHT!!! Sometimes you just have to throw your hat to the wind and say.
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The floating Rosary in the video was amazing! The zeal of the young people is a joy to see. How refreshing to see these youngsters in an age when many youths have been assimilated into pagan culture—or are afraid of standing up for Jesus Christ in the public arena. 👍
 
Shivers and tears from me. Thanks for sharing this beautiful event.
 
Catholic1954 said:
They were taken by surprise this year. Next year they will show up.
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Well usualy those folks tend to show up when it has to do with something like abortion or homosexuality… stuff they can wrap their head around…

But the Divine Mercy? For them this is incomprehensible… I doubt they’d even have a clue what they’d be protest against… 😛
 
They were taken by surprise this year. Next year they will show up.
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Here’s what happened when the same pro-life group surprised a “Walk for Choice” abortion supporters: youtu.be/8UvOMzO_wdc

And when the abortion supporters tried to disrupt a Pro-Life event honoring pro-life pioneer Joe Scheidler, the same group of pro-life youngsters who call themselves the “Chicago LIFE Mob” showed up to show their support for Mr. Scheidler. Here is a video of that incident…
 
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