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Second Sunday of Easter 11th April
Divine Mercy
Ac 4:32-35 1 Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20:19-31
9am – People of the Parish
11am – John & Agnes Caffrey RIP & deceased
members of the Caffrey & Rush families
5pm – Departed Souls of Koziel & Sawicki families
YouTube Vigil Mass Irene Simmons RIP
Retiring Collection: Friary Building Fund
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Dear Brothers & Sisters
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday and our hearts turn to the mercy Jesus came to bring us. He calls the whole church to show the world his merciful face, for our world does not need judgement but love.
Maria Faustina Kowolska 1905-1938 was the apostle of Divine Mercy, & her apparitions of Jesus inspired this devotion. At 20 she joined a convent in Warsaw later moving to Płock then Vilnius where she met Fr. Michaeł Sopoćko who was her confessor & supported her love for Divine Mercy
Sister Faustina commissioned an artist to paint the first Divine Mercy image, based on her vision of Jesus, and Fr. Sopoćko celebrated Mass before this image on the Second Sunday of Easter, now Divine Mercy Sunday. She was declared saint by Pope John Paul II on April 30 2000 and her Krakow tomb has become a shrine of Divine Mercy.
Pope Martin I (Monday) a little known 7th cent pope reigned 7 years before being forced out of office, and is not the best known of popes. But his story has familiar echoes ancient & modern. His determination to stay close to the poor earned him strong opposition from powerful politicians with undue influence in the church. The Byzantine emperor arrested him & imprisoned, maltreated & publicly humiliated him. Like St. Paul he died in gaol a martyr for Christ sake.
Thursday Prayer: Now that we are in the Easter season we shall open the church for quiet prayer before the Blessed Sacrament on Thursdays after the morning mass till midday. With grateful thanks again to our stewards who make this possible
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