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Divine Mercy 101: The Saving Work of the Son of God

Week 20: According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the supreme manifestation of God's Mercy is the sending of His divine Son into the world to share our human nature, and to make "atonement" or "satisfaction" for our sins, meriting for us superabundant graces of regeneration and sanctification.

Divine Mercy 101: St. Thomas Aquinas Defines Divine Mercy

What, then, is the mercy of God, according to St. Thomas? It cannot be an emotion or a passion, since God in His infinite, immutable perfection cannot be subject to changing passions that "happen" to Him or "overcome" Him, or that reduce His fullness of Being in any way.

Easter, the "Moveable Feast"

Why is Easter, unlike Christmas, a “moveable feast,” a date that changes year-to-year, and how is the date determined? The answer involves tradition, and requires a lesson in the rich, sometimes turbulent, but always fascinating history of the Catholic Church. 

Marians join world in praying for the Consecration of Russia and Ukraine

On March 25, the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception joined the rest of the Church in making a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as the Holy Father, Pope Francis, had requested

Divine Mercy 101: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Virtue of Mercy

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) defined the virtue of "mercy" in his great Summa Theologiae as "the compassion in our hearts for another person's misery, a compassion which drives us to do what we can to help him."

The Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of St. Joseph

On this Solemnity of St. Joseph, ask St. Joseph to guide you in all of your ways, just as he guided the Child Jesus who “was obedient to [him]” and thus “advanced [in] wisdom and age and favor before God and man” (Lk. 2:51-2).

As war rages, pray for peace — and persist!

Now is the time to deploy the grace of God into our world. Now is the time to take up the Divine Mercy Chaplet, venerate the Image of Divine Mercy, and ask God to “have mercy on us and on the whole world.” 

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