What is the difference between the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Divine Mercy message and devotion? Do they conflict? Are they both needed? Fr. Don Calloway explains these two critical devotions.
When we use the phrase "The Divine Mercy" in prayer, do we know what or who we are actually talking about? Dr. Stackpole tries to clear up some verbal confusion here.
Some people brush off the Divine Mercy as a "mere devotion." Dr. Stackpole argues that this isn't fair or accurate, either with regard to the Divine Mercy devotion, or with regard to other important popular devotions in the Church, like the Rosary.
Charlotte wrote to tell me of how her pastors oppose the celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday and the recitation of the Divine Mercy Novena. "What's going on?" she wonders.
The "trust" that Jesus asks for in the Image is not a passive thing. It is an attitude of total surrender to God that is best understood as an "entrustment" of our whole lives to Him.
Christ has fashioned for us in this Image of The Divine Mercy an ecumenical synthesis of Christian iconography. A brief review of the history of Christian art will enable us to appreciate why this is so.
