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.

Are the Storm Clouds of a Civil War Looming over America?

“America needs much prayer lest it lose its soul.” 
~St. John Paul II
 

Dan Lynch
January 28, 2021

From the mass media reports, it appears that there are storm clouds of a Civil War of morals and values in our culture looming over America.
 
The division in our culture is between the proponents of a Culture of Life and the proponents of a Culture of Death. There are acts of a civil culture war from the proponents of a Culture of Death that include the “canceling” of a Culture of Life, vandalism of statues, violence in the streets, boycotting, and employment and social media terminations.
 

 

In 1987, St. John Paul II issued a warning to America when he left Detroit. "This is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition for her survival - yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weakest and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn."

In 1993, at World Youth Day in Denver, St. John Paul II warned America again. He said, “If you want equal justice for all, lasting justice and peace, America:  Defend life. America needs much prayer… lest it lose its soul. Do not be afraid to go out on the streets and into public places, like the first apostles. This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living, in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis….  America, defend life so that you may live in peace and harmony. Woe to you if you do not succeed in defending life.”
 
These are the most severe prophetic warnings that America has ever received. St. John Paul II warned us that the very condition for our nation’s survival is to respect the unborn. He used the warning words of the prophets, “Woe to you….”

In 1855, President Lincoln said, "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanently - forever half slave and half free? The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution."
 
One hundred and forty years later, St. John Paul II said, “President Lincoln’s question is no less a question for the present generation of Americans.  Democracy cannot be sustained without a shared commitment to certain moral truths about the human person and human community.” (Address, October, 1995). President Lincoln’s question for the present generation is, “Can we continue together as a nation permanently–forever half pro-death and half pro-life?” The answer is no!

Like the prophets of old, St. John Paul II called the Church in America to conversion by “a profound interior renewal through a revitalization of missionary zeal. As the tragic events of September 11, 2001 have made clear, the building of a global culture of solidarity and respect for human dignity is one of the great moral tasks confronting humanity today.” (Address to U.S. Bishops of Boston and Hartford, September 2, 2004).
 
19 years later, with no respect for human dignity, New York celebrated its legalization of abortion up to birth by lighting up its Freedom Tower, the replacement for the Twin Towers that God had allowed to be destroyed by the chastisement of the Attack on America. A Culture of Death invites God’s chastisement as an act of mercy to bring people to repentance and salvation. Let us learn from the lesson of the chastisement of the American Civil War.   
 

The Chastisement of the American Civil War

 
Abraham Lincoln recognized that nations as well as individuals are subject to chastisements. In the middle of the American Civil War he said, “We know that by his divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.”

He believed that the American Civil War was a chastisement from God and that America had to humble itself and pray. On March 30, 1863, he proclaimed a National Day of Prayer and Fasting. He said,

It is the duty of nations, as well as of men to own their dependence on the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon.  . . .

And insomuch as we know that by his divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?  . . . 

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.  . . . It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

So, let us turn to God, humble ourselves, and pray for his healing of our country. He said, “If  my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 14).

Fr. Justin Waltz - "48 Years of Killing Our Children" 1-24-2021 Homily

 

Divine Mercy for America

 

Hello,

We are Dave and Joan Maroney, initiators and campaign directors of Divine Mercy for America. Since 1999 we have dedicated our lives to helping Catholic parishes and schools learn about, live and spread The Divine Mercy message and devotion as Mother of Mercy Messengers. In our personal as well as our missionary lives we have encountered thousands upon thousands who have been incredibly transformed by Divine Mercy and we are convinced that it is the most important message and devotion for our times. The promises are unparalleled and the gift too great not to make known to one and all.