MOMM

Since January 2001, Dave and Joan Maroney, known as Mother of Mercy Messengers (MOMM), an apostolate of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, have traveled more than 250,000 miles to give their multimedia presentations that go to the heart of The Divine Mercy message.

Where are they these days? Who have they met? Here's the first in a series of dispatches from the road, where MOMM visits a jail and reports on the transformation of a former inmate:

Hello everyone!

Spring 2009, Joan and I were as busy as ever. Here are just a few of the highpoints of our ministry activities:

New Messenger of Mercy Training Workshops a Huge Success
We kicked off the year with the newest addition to our repertoire of support for Divine Mercy devotees with two highly productive "Messenger of Mercy Training Workshops" in Texas.

On April 30, in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized St. Maria Faustina Kowalska as the first saint of the 21st century. Each year, the National Shrine observes her feast day, honoring the nun selected by Jesus to be His secretary in recording His revelations about Divine Mercy, which are found in her Diary.

This year, because Oct. 5 falls on a Sunday, the Shrine will celebrate the feast a day earlier, on Saturday, Oct. 4.

Events begin at 11 a.m.