Celebration of the Divine Mercy Novena
at St. Laurence Parish in Sugar Land, Texas

2007

** FEAST OF THE DIVINE MERCY, now a recognized Feast Day in the Church, will be celebrated at all Masses on the First Sunday after Easter.  The image will be in a prominent place to be venerated.  The message is to focus on God’s mercy and how we are called to be vessels of mercy to a hurting world.

This day is one of great grace for all!  Those attending Mass in a state of grace and having recently been to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, as well as receiving Holy Communion and doing a deed of mercy that day, and venerating the image, will receive complete forgiveness of sin and punishment due for past offenses.  This is likened to a “Second Baptism”, in that our souls are washed clean and made as white as snow.  Our Lord told St. Faustina, “On that day all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened.  Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sin be as scarlet” (Diary of St. Faustina, 699)  Let us approach the Fount of Mercy with an attitude of greater trust in Jesus

** GOOD FRIDAY DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION will begin at 7:00pm in the Main Church. We will begin with praying the Stations of the Cross, then the Novena followed by the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and closing with the Litany. 

** DIVINE MERCY NOVENA    Begins on Good Friday (can be said privately)

Our Lord asked St. Faustina :  when he appeared to her in 1931, To Pray this Novena in petitioning His Mercy for the whole world. {with our continuing wars, terrorist threats, overflowing prisons,  aids epidemic, STD’s, abortions (1000 a day just in USA), drugs, addictions, internet pornography}

We Need God’s Mercy!!!!!!

The Novena will continue for nine days at 7:00 p.m. in the Divine Mercy Chapel

DAY                      TIME                                    SPEAKER             TOPIC              

Holy Saturday    (no church functions this day)

Easter Sunday       7-8pm                                     Andrea Murray        Image

Monday                 7-8pm                                     TBA                        Chaplet

Tuesday-               8-9pm * (time change)           Mike Lojo               Eucharist

Wednesday            7-8pm                                     Deacon Charles       Mary

Thursday               7-8pm                                      Fr. Enrique              Suffering

Friday                    7-8pm                                     Deacon Rey             Intersession

Saturday                7-8pm                                     Patty Kallemeyn      Works of Mercy

Sunday                  7-8pm                                     TBA                          Feast of Mercy

The Evening will include talks by guest Priests & Speakers on themes of the Divine Mercy, Praise and Worship, Benediction, Novena, Chaplet, and Litany.  Please join us, for this beautiful and powerful hour of prayer with The Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy, The Jesus and Mary Prayer Group, The Legion of Mary, Catholic Daughters, Familia, and Magnificat ministries.

Jesus told St. Faustina  “Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire life as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour of death I will not be a judge for them, but the Merciful Savior.” (Diary entry 1075)

** DIVINE MERCY BOOK SALE**After all the Masses (with discounted price