Is the Chaplet only about "balancing the books," atoning for our debts to God's justice? Dr. Stackpole shows that the Chaplet echoes the teaching of the Bible and the Church that Christ's saving work involves that - but also much, much more!
One reader writes: "A priest adamantly assured the congregation that if we entrust the salvation of a soul to the Blessed Mother, she will be sure to follow through on that." Can we really be assured of this?
How could a loving and merciful God send a soul to purgatory? Dr. Stackpole explains that this is exactly what we should expect a merciful God to do for some souls, because mercy is sometimes "tough love."
This week, Dr. Stackpole shares a letter from a reader who reflects on the special way of dealing with life's unavoidable sufferings, and utilizing them, through Christ, for people in need.
Now that I am back from my brief post-Divine Mercy Sunday respite, I find myself with a pile of questions to answer that came in just after the feast day, and some of them from people who are still wrestling with the meaning of the day itself.
One reader asks: If this is a devotion based on God's merciful love to all people, what should we say to Christians who are not Catholic and cannot go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday?