Easter Saturday - vigil of Mercy Sunday!

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

What a beautiful “confluence” of Feast Days for tomorrow! It is the Feast of Divine Mercy and it is also the Feast Day of St. Louis de Montfort. Far fewer people know St. Louis de Montfort or his treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” than the number of people who know about Divine Mercy Sunday.

However, for those of us who have prayed St. Louis De Montfort’s Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary, it is a glorious gift to be renewing our Act of Total Consecration – which is a perfect renewal of our Baptismal promises – on Mercy Sunday!

Does anyone remember a time when these two Feasts occurred on the same date? Saints’ Feast days are not usually celebrated on the same day as major feasts of the Church – at least publicly – without some very special reason, but privately, I hope many will be renewing their act of Consecration tomorrow on this Mercy Sunday. It seems such a perfect “match” - that we would not only renew our Baptismal promises on Easter but also on this Feast of Mercy Sunday. The God of Mercy came to us and desires that we “Remain in His Love”. His Mercy bids us: “Remain in Me”" (Jn 15: 4)

It would be a blessing to hear from others, planning to renew their Baptismal Promises with their renewal of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary. I would be grateful to hear from anyone on God’s Mercy coming through our Mother of Mercy as well. If you’ve read St. Faustina’s Diary “Divine Mercy in my Soul” you read of Mary’s role in Jesus’ Revelation of Divine Mercy to St. Faustina.

May this Saturday before Mercy Sunday find us praying through Mary by the power of His Holy Spirit to learn from Jesus to be Merciful as our Father is Merciful. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Jesus, I trust in You. Mary, Mother of Mercy, intercede for us.
 
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Hello MariaChristi 🙂
It’s Divine Mercy Sunday for me when I wake up :pray:t2:
I have St Faustinas Diary ,found in a secondhand bookstore some years back …I’ve only read a few chapters and would like to finish it someday .
Thank you and God bless you for all your posts 🌹
 
Dear Greenfields,

Thanks so much for your sweet reply! Yes, everyday is a day of Mercy truly – for if God in His Mercy did not continue to sustain us – we would die here on earth and only by His Grace be with Him hereafter!" I too am grateful each day I wake up and usually begin with my morning offering before I get out of bed – followed by the short form of my Consecration to Jesus through Mary! "I am All Yours and ALL that I have is Yours!

I’ve read St. Faustina’s Diary from cover to cover twice now and like all good spiritual books, I find more each time I re-read one of them. The Scriptures first and foremost but St. Louis de Montfort’s two books, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” and “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” are also high on my list. 🙂

The Holy Spirit, I believe, is teaching me to go more slowly than I have in the past – not only with reading – but with most things. There are times when we need to act immediately, as when the disciples were called by Jesus and they “immediately” left their nets and followed Him (Mt 4: 22) or when Mary “went with haste” to visit Elizabeth. We really need to believe in what Jesus has told us and continues to tell us – if we listen with the ears of our hearts to hear truly:
"…But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation: sin, because they do not believe in me; righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
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“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when He comes, the Spirit of truth, He will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. (Jn 16: 7-15)
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His Mercy endures forever! Thanks again, dear Greenfields! for your reply!
 
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Remembered at Prime hour Saturday, April 27, 2019. (Communities and individuals are still free to pray Prime hour.)

San Luigi Maria Grignion da Montfort San Luigi Maria Grignion da Montfort

St. Louis de Montfort (+1716), venerable in 1838, beatified 1888, canonized 1947, based partly on four miracles:
  1. The cure of Sr. Emmanuel of spinal paralysis (1845),
  2. The cure of Sr. Saint-Lin of a chronic disease of the marrow (1869),
  3. The cure of Reine Mallé of a tubercular arthritis of the hip and dislocation of the right leg (1870),
  4. The cure of Sr. St-Gabriel of consumption of the lung, judged fatal, abdominal cystic tumor, and heart disease (1873).
Also examined were virtues and writings including the Treatise on True Devotion and 291 other works.

Divine Mercy Sunday was promulgated in 2000.

Martyrologe
Le 28 avril
2. Mémoire également de saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, prêtre, qui annonça à travers l’Ouest de la France le mystère de la Sagesse éternelle, fonda l’Institut des Filles de la Sagesse et, pour les prêtres, la Compagnie de Marie, prêcha et écrivit sur la Croix du Christ et la vraie dévotion à la Vierge Marie et conduisit des foules à la pénitence. Il acheva sa pérégrination sur terre à Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, en 1716.

http://www.societaslaudis.org/forma-ordinaria/martyrologe-20190428/
 
Dear Vico,

Thanks much for your reply. It is a blessing to me to realize again how beautifully God works in all things. He knew from all eternity that His servant St. Louis de Montfort would become a great “Champion of Mary our Mother” when St Louis was born in the 1700’s and that his writings would continue to help others to grow in their love for Jesus through Mary.

These are difficult days for all of us in many different places and situations but the Church Universal continues to need the Mother Jesus gave us from the Cross. Pope St. John Paul II saw this need and in his address to the Legion of Mary members in Italy. he said quite prophetically, in October 1982:
"…Where the Mother is, there too is the Son. When one moves away from the Mother, sooner or later he ends up keeping distant from the Son as well. It is no wonder that today, in various sectors of secularised society, we note a widespread crisis of faith in God, preceded by a drop in devotion to the Virgin Mother.
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May those of us who have given ourselves totally to Jesus through Mary, renew our Act of Total Consecration tomorrow and call upon His Mercy fo ALL whom Jesus died to save.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful; kindle in us the fire of Your Love!
Jesus we trust in You! Mary, Mother and Model for the Church, pray for us.
 
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It is Divine Mercy Sunday here today. I am hoping I have enough time to make it to church after hubby gets home from work.
The nearest church doing divine mercy Sunday is an hour away so I definately need the car and unfortunately he needs the car to get to work.
 
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It is Divine Mercy Sunday here today. I am hoping I have enough time to make it to church after hubby gets home from work.
The nearest church doing divine mercy Sunday is an hour away so I definately need the car and unfortunately he needs the car to get to work.
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The Church also made special, compassionate provisions for obtaining a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday by those who cannot go to Mass on that day, including those who are seriously ill or involved in non-postponable work.
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I realise that but I really really want to go. It’s my first Divine Mercy Sunday since becoming Catholic and not something I want to miss, it’s not about indulgences for me.
 
Dear Vico,

Thanks for giving Brendea the link: Homebound | The Divine Mercy

There may be others who will also be grateful to read how the Church is providing for those who cannot get to Mass on that day!
 
Dear Brendea,

Blessings on your coming into the Catholic Church and your beautiful desire not to miss the opportunity to be with your brothers and sisters in praying the Divine Mercy prayers. I hope the Lord will bring your husband home in time – if not – you have the opportunity to pray the prayers at home and be with your brothers and sisters in Spirit.

Jesus we trust in You!
 
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Dear Tad, lilypadrees, and CajunJoy,

Thank you all for your “hearts” letting me know you liked the post, and hopefully you will be blessed in special ways tomorrow on Mercy Sunday, and perhpas if you have not yet, considered reading “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” by St. Louis de Montfort and made your Act of Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary, you may consider it – perhaps during Mary’s month of May! 🙂
 
Me too, an hours drive away this morning.We used to have it at our little local churches with people driving from an hour away .It might depend on the priests and availability on the day.
All the best for the day 🙂
 
Unfortunately he came home 20 minutes before mass started. So it seems I would’ve missed it.
There will always be next year I geuss
 
Dear Brendea,

“God works ALL things unto Good for those who love Him and are called according to His Purpose.” (Rom 8:28)

Our willingness to receive whatever God permits brings Him honor, dear sister in Christ. Mary our Mother humbly accepted the Lord’s Will in her life as did Jesus from His crib to His Cross.
Consider it all joy… when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1: 2-4)
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Some things He wills directly and some things happen to us by His permissive Will, but our faith assures us that all He does is Good. He may give us another year or we may be with Him in eternity but we have this day in which to praise and thank Him for our Life in Christ. Let us rejoice and be glad. 🙂

Blessings to you and your dear family and to all who may be reading this on Today’s Feast of Mercy Sunday and also the Feast of the great champion of our Mother Mary, St. Louis de Montfort. If you’d like to read his small treatise on “True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin”, the online version is HERE
 
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