EXCITING NEWS ABOUT OUR ONLINE CONTENT!
We are making a few changes to our Virtual Parish programming schedule & are looking forward to another engaging week of growing in faith with you through Facebook! We will announce the new line up later today - make sure to look for it via Flocknote & social media. We would like to thank you, in advance, for your participation & support of our new Facebook Live endeavors. Though we must stay apart for a while longer, we are so happy to be able to connect & share with you online each day!
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE BISHOP
WE'RE HOSTING TWO LIVE EVENTS TODAY ON FACEBOOK! PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO JOIN US!
CELEBRATING DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
AMID A GLOBAL CRISIS
CAN YOU STILL RECEIVE A PLENARY INDULGENCE?
For those who have been wondering, whether or not, if, it is still possible to receive the special Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday, this answer is, most definitely, yes! In the original Vatican decree, establishing the plenary indulgence, in June of 2002, there is a special provision, to, still, obtain the plenary indulgence, without attending Mass. It is in the last section of the decree, titled “For those who cannot go to church or the seriously ill”. The document, which has perpetual force, clearly states that “all who for a just cause cannot leave their homes” “may obtain a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday”. We must remember, this does not remove the 3 conditions, which must be fulfilled, to receive the plenary indulgence, which are: (a sacramental confession, a Eucharistic communion, and a prayer for the intentions of Supreme Pontiff). The decree clearly states that these must be done “as soon as possible” The decree reads, as follows: “if totally detesting any sin, as has been said before, and with the intention of fulfilling as soon as possible the three usual conditions, will recite the Our Father and the Creed before a devout image of Our Merciful Lord Jesus and, in addition, pray a devout invocation to the Merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you).” The decree, also, has many other, special, provisions, including “the sick and those who nurse them”. The decree goes, even, further by saying “If it is impossible that people do even this, on the same day, they may obtain the Plenary Indulgence, if, with a spiritual intention they are united with those carrying out the prescribed practice for obtaining the Indulgence, in the usual way, and offer to the Merciful Lord a prayer and the sufferings of their illness and the difficulties of their lives, with the resolution to accomplish as soon as possible the three conditions prescribed to obtain the plenary indulgence”. There is no doubt, that Pope St. John Paul II, was guided, by the Holy Spirit, when he established this, very special plenary indulgence, with every possible provision, so that everyone can obtain the incredible gift of the total forgiveness of all sins and punishment.
SOURCE: DIVINEMERCYSUNDAY.COM
THE CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY
THE 3 O'CLOCK PRAYER
