Divine Mercy for America

Divine Mercy For America 4 months ago The Battle for Good over Evil Continues International Week of Pray and Fasting Starts Today Dear faith-filled friend, We've made it through Basic Training. Now What? The 54-Day Novena for Our Nation that over 100,000 just completed on October 7, the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, has been like going through basic training. We should now be strengthened and prepared to take part in the ongoing and intensified battles waged upon the world as we come closer to the imminent Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Divine Providence has placed all of us here at this particular time in history. Our Lady has summoned us to join her and now we continue in the next phase of the campaign: the 28th Annual International Week of Prayer and Fasting, which just happens to begin on day one of the Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings for Amy Coney Barrett. And for the first time since its beginnings you do not have to travel to Washington DC to attend. This year everyone can participate virtually online! Each day you will have access to three talks from leading Catholic clergy and laity, Holy Mass, the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet and more. It is simple just go to IWOPF.org. The current daily talks and liturgies will be available free and for a $30 donation you will have on-demand access to all of the events from every day. Live Mass with Bishop Strickland at 1 pm EDT to launch IWOPF Although it is called a "week" the time frame is actually nine days, so basically it is another novena. From Columbus Day, today, through October 20th you are being called to join us in intensified prayer and fasting of some kind each day, and we have fantastic resources to help you do it! Click below to hear Maureen Flynn, director of IOWPF, give us details as well as some astonishing insights. For instance, did you know that our world came close to nuclear war in the early 1980s? It was prayer that saved us View Comment 9 A Great Joy Filled My Soul Today, as Pro-Life marchers take to the streets in our nation's capitol, we ask you to fast in reparation for the sin of abortion and for the conversion of those who ardently promote it. Passage 39 from the Diary of St. Faustina  was read at the conclusion of Mass this morning celebrated at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy. We immediately thought it was the perfect thing to reflect upon while fasting today. The video posted below the passage explains the reason for the devastating chastisement upon Warsaw (abortion) but also how God's mercy is "greater than our sins and those of the entire world." The last part of this Diary  passage gives us a clue as to why and how things can and will change if we persevere in our call to holiness and spiritual battle. Let us focus on "the kindness of Jesus" and in "seeing the goodness of God" rather than the hate and carnage laid waste by the evil one so that we can say as did St. Faustina, "a great joy filled my soul" because who couldn't use some joy right now?? Thank you Jesus. Lord, have mercy. Dave & Joan, your fast friends

 + One day Jesus told me that He would cause a chastisement to fall upon the most beautiful city in our country [probably Warsaw]. This chastisement would be that with which God had punished Sodom and Gomorrah. I saw the great wrath of God and a shudder pierced my heart. I prayed in silence. After a moment, Jesus said to me, My child, unite yourself closely to Me during the Sacrifice and offer My Blood and My Wounds to My Father in expiation for the sins of that city. Repeat this without interruption throughout the entire Holy Mass. Do this for seven days. St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament 1905-1938

On the seventh day I saw Jesus in a bright cloud and began to beg Him to look upon the city and upon our whole country. Jesus looked [down] graciously. When I saw the kindness of Jesus, I began to beg His blessing. Immediately Jesus said, For your sake I bless the entire country. And He made a big sign of the cross over our country. Seeing the goodness of God, a great joy filled my soul.