Divine Mercy Sunday Eucharistic Procession
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLocation: St. EulaliaPublic Act of Reparation: Eucharistic Procession & Rosary Crusade
Following Pope Francis’ monumental move for peace via his consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Catholic Church’s celebration of the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary, March 25th, we have an opportunity in our area to answer Heaven’s continual call to make reparation for the violence, outrages, and offenses of humanity. On Divine Mercy Sunday, April 24th at noon (following the 11am Mass) at St. Eulalia’s Catholic Church, 6 E. Maple St., Coudersport, PA, there will be a walking procession with the Holy Eucharist (body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ) through the backstreets of Coudersport while praying the Rosary. The walk will be about a mile, and those who cannot walk are invited to join the simultaneous praying of the Rosary in church. The Act will conclude at church with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Benediction.
Divine Mercy Sunday is the Sunday following Easter. It is a poignant day to seek the “unfathomable ocean of mercy” available to humanity, which Jesus himself explained in detail to a Polish nun, St. Maria Faustina (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska). This Feast of Mercy concludes the Novena to Divine Mercy, nine days of prayer that Jesus specifically requested be prayed and by which He promised extraordinary graces to those who recite the Chaplet and trust in His endless mercy (www.marian.org).
In these upside-down days when good is made out to be evil and evil is presented as good, instead of succumbing to despair, confusion, and fear, we have a chance locally to respond to Heaven’s call to make reparation and implore God’s mercy. This urgent message, to which Pope Francis universally responded about a week ago, is most well-known from the early 1900’s at Fatima, Portugal where the Blessed Mother pleaded with humanity through three peasant children and miraculous events. It is continually being corroborated by miraculous phenomena, visions, and messages throughout the world and in our own country today (www.sign.org).
Although most of us don’t know about it, public acts of reparation have been made throughout history and have astonishingly changed the events of history. In 590, Rome was devastated by the destruction of the Lombards, famine, and then a terrible plague. Pope St. Gregory the Great, as Pope Gregory I is known, followed the example of the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh by leading the entire populace of Rome in a procession to the Vatican Basilica while singing and praying litanies. Even as people were falling dead along the way from the epidemic, the Pope persisted with a sacred image of the Blessed Virgin Mary painted by Saint Luke leading the procession. Historians recount the tangible cleaning of the air as the procession advanced and angels being heard joining in the chorus. Gregory saw atop the Hadrian Mausoleum an angel sheathing its blood-dripping sword signifying the end of the plague, which the people had understood to be punishment for their collective sins.
Everyone is encouraged to participate in this important public event of repentance and reparation to God April 24th. It’s a hopeful and concrete way of confronting and impacting not only the violence, chaos, and degeneration around us, but also, of potentially affecting the course of history by invoking and trusting in God’s endless mercy as He asks. For further information, call the event coordinator at 716.244.3006.
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ANGEL’S PRAYER
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.
*Delivered by the Angel of Peace during the Third Apparition of the Angel in October 1916. The Angel appeared to the three shepherd children holding a chalice in his hands, with a Host above it from which drops of Blood were falling into the chalice.
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