The Divine Mercy Novena:

The Link to the Prayers is Here
 

Divine Mercy Sunday:  Our Local Celebration

Please join us immediately after the Saturday Night Mass (April 23rd) at St. Charles Borromeo for exposition of the Blessed Sacrament that will continue over the nighttime hours and be reposed just in time for the 10:00am Sunday Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday (April 24th). 

At the conclusion of Divine Mercy Sunday Mass at St. Charles Borromeo, we will again expose the Blessed Sacrament for Adoration until 1:30pm, upon where we invite you to join us in the St. Charles Borromeo Parking Lot for a Eucharistic Procession by Car to St. Aloysius in Elba for our Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration. 

If you choose not to join in the car procession, the exposition and prayers for Divine Mercy Sunday at St. Aloysius will begin as soon as we arrive - ideally close to the 2:00pm Hour and continue until 3:15pm with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 

The prayers during the Prayer Service at St. Aloysius will include the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the Rosary and there will be an option to attend Reconciliation (Penance/Confession). 

This will all be a beautiful and grace-filled time for all of us. 

Please consider signing up for a time for the Adoration between 6:00pm on Saturday evening through 10:00am on Sunday Morning and again from 11:00am on Sunday Morning until 1:30pm at St. Charles Borromeo prior to the Procession to St. Aloysius. 

Please Sign-up Here

(If you need help with the sign-up, please contact the parish office - 932-3294). 

You will NOT want to miss this historic and very grace-filled time.  


Divine Mercy Sunday … What is it?
The feast of Divine Mercy, or Divine Mercy Sunday, is observed on the octave of Easter. This year, the feast will be celebrated April 24^th.
The feast was promoted by St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who kept a diary in the 1930s of Christ’s private revelations, telling her of His message of mercy. She wrote that she first saw a vision of Jesus on Feb. 22, 1931. He had rays of mercy streaming from His heart. Christ told her to have an image painted to represent the vision and to write below it, “Jesus, I trust in you!”

St. Faustina died of tuberculosis in 1938 at age 33. St. John Paul II canonized her in 2000 and declared Divine Mercy Sunday a worldwide feast day. Two years later, he granted a plenary indulgence for those who participate in the devotion. St. John Paul II was canonized on the feast of Divine Mercy in 2014.

To receive the graces of the plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday, along with the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Holy Communion and prayers for the intentions of the pope), the faithful, while in a state of grace and detached from venial sin, are asked to take part in the prayers and devotions the Second Sunday of Easter held in honor of Divine Mercy in any church or chapel, or else they should recite the Our Father and Creed before the Blessed Sacrament adding a devotional prayer to our Lord.

Divine Mercy Novena … More Information

Catholics also are encouraged to pray the novena of Divine Mercy, which begins Good Friday and ends the Saturday before Divine Mercy Sunday; to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet; and to be merciful toward others through words, actions and prayers. (To learn how to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet and novena, visit www.thedivinemercy.org.)