HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY TO ALL!

(especially to those who are truly Irish!)

Celebrate safely.

And consider St. Patrick--his passionate actions and determined 

prayerfulness.(Check out the last two blogs on the life of Saint Patrick.)

May "green" today more than signify that emerald green island overseas.

May it also represent embracing "new life" in the deepest, truest ways we

can find.

~~~ AND ~~~

INTRODUCING OUR NEW 5-PART SERIES: 

THE PASCHAL MYSTERY,

JOY, AND DIVINE MERCY 

In preparation for Easter Sunday and Holy Week, we 

introduce the 5-part series on “The Paschal Mystery, Joy, and 

Divine Mercy”. These topics are inter-woven. At the heart of 

our faith, they wind their way through scripture, throughout 

papal documents, and in previous blog writings. Hopefully, 

we will gladly renew (or begin now) our desire to seek the 

Lord’s hand in knitting them into the fabric of our own lives. 

Resurrection, restoration, and joy become the grand 

finale of Our Lord’s tribulation-filled life, tortuous Passion, 

and horrific crucifixion. When we “take up our cross and

follow” Him, we, too, walk that road toward that joyous, 

resurrection “grand finale”. 

The five-part series ["Paschal Mystery, Joy and Divine Mercy"] includes:

PART I: PASSIONATE LOVE, PASSIONATE DEATH: PASCHAL MERCY

PART II: PASSIONATE DEATH leads to JOYOUS RESURRECTION

PART III: JOY IN THE MIDST OF PAIN [JOY COMES IN THE MORNING]

PART IV: PAPAL WRITINGS ON MERCY AND SAINT FAUSTINA

PART V: DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY IN YEAR OF MERCY

Look for this series over the next two weeks, as we commemorate 

Holy Week, celebrate Easter Sunday, and look forward to 

Divine Mercy Sunday 

in the midst of this Jubilee Year of Mercy.