The Divine Mercy icon

It is Divine Mercy Sunday, the most recent solemnity added to the Church’s liturgical calendar by Pope saint John Paul II. The opening prayer of Mass asks God to give us more grace so that “all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose…

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Mary Magdalene

Among the many amazing details of the Easter account we are hearing this Sunday, notice Mary Magdalene. In Mark’s Gospel, written first, and in Matthew and Luke who used Mark as a source for their Gospels, Magdalene goes with other women to the tomb of Jesus. By the time John’s…

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