Given the world economic downturn that we are all facing this year, the question I received a few weeks ago is likely to be on a lot of people's minds these days:
Let's take a walk through the corporal works of mercy and try to discern whether they are still possible to practice today, and if so, how we can do it.
What is the difference between the special graces promised by Jesus for devout communicants on Divine Mercy Sunday, and the plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday devotions that was instituted several years ago by Pope John Paul II?
Special Masses on the afternoon of Divine Mercy Sunday? Veneration of the Image? Use of the Chaplet? Here are some basic guidelines and preferable options.