Seen on the CatholicTV Network each Friday of Lent at 6:00 am, 12 noon and 6 pm. The Stations of the Cross (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus.
‘Plunged into God’s mercy’Conversion stories abound at conference focusing on feast of Divine MercyWednesday, March 23, 2011
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Father John A. Hardon (this is a direct link to the official site about the Servant of God Father John Hardon, S.J., his holiness of life, and the cause for his beatification and canonization)
Father John Hardon died peacefully at Columbiere, with the Jesuits, on December 30, 2000 at 3:23 p.m., the hour of Divine Mercy.
Unless we recover the zeal and the spirit of the first century Christians—unless we are willing to do what they did and to pay the price that they paid, the future of our country, the days of America are numbered. — Fr. Hardon
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
If there is one divine attribute that we spontaneously associate with Christ and Christianity it is the attribute of mercy. Mercy, we may safely say, is the distinctive quality of being a Christian: to be a Christian is to be merciful. There are many reasons for this. One reason cannot be that the word mercy, just as a word, is so common in the New Testament. By actual count, justice is used almost three times as often as the word mercy in the New Testament. This is not a matter of arithmetic; it is a matter of spirit. The spirit of Christianity is the spirit of mercy.
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ANNE DIBERNARDO | FC Archbishop Thomas Wenski speaks at the opening Mass of the Divine Mercy conference held March 12 on the campus of St. Thomas University.
