Have you ever felt like you weren’t sure how exactly to pray? Did you feel like prayer was a formula that you never got quite right? Especially when you listened to others pray out loud? I have too. I ...

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, one of those more recent observations less familiar to those of us who came into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism and other traditions. The title was only instituted ...

This Sunday, April 12, 2026, is Divine Mercy Sunday, the Second Sunday of Easter – image courtesy of Pinterest.com. This Sunday, April 12, 2026, is Divine Mercy Sunday. The main point for the readings ...

Sitting in front of a huge slab of Mile High Chocolate Cake, I exclaimed, “Lord, have mercy!” People often use that phrase—or a similar one, “Mercy me!”—when facing something monstrous, enormous, or ...

This litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus reminds us of the great sacrifice of the cross and the shedding of his blood for humanity. One of the earliest devotions in the Church was a devotion to ...

Turning to Christ in these times is a healing consolation. The Jaminet family fosters their devotion to Divine Mercy with prayerful images and times of prayer. (photo: Courtesy of Emily Jaminet) ...

In 2000, on the occasion of the canonization of a Polish nun, Sister Faustina Kowalska, Pope St. John Paul II instituted Divine Mercy Sunday, thus opening the feast and devotion to the Universal ...

For a large occasional project of mine on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I’ve put together some notes toward a discussion of the topic. How important is the claim of Christ’s resurrection to the ...