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Dear Apostles of Divine Mercy, The month of August is halfway through the summer vacation season. During these months I especially enjoy the beauty of the earth This month's Newsletter is entitled "The Holy Trinity". St. Faustina had a great love for the Holy Trinity as she stated, "O Holy Trinity, in whom is contained the inner life of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, eternal joy inconceivable depth of love, poured out upon all creatures and constituting their happiness, honor and glory be to Your holy name forever and ever. Amen" (Diary, #525). Do you understand who the Trinity is, or do you just take it for granted? The picture on the front cover of the Holy Trinity, actually bears little resemblance to the Blessed Trinity; it is merely the artist portraying his best. We will try and explain the mystery of the Trinity, which is hard to understand because it exceeds and elevates the powers of reason. However, that does not give us an excuse not to investigate this most sublime mystery. There is no greater love then between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This love of the Trinity challenges us in a new way. to learn who God is, and establish a personal; relationship with Him. As we come to understand we can pay tribute to Him, learn to love Him more and to live our lives as He would want us to live. Not in a selfish self-centered way, but to renounce ourselves and to walk by the Spirit. He has grafted us onto the true vine and will make us bear "the fruits of the Spirit...love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control". Through the Holy Spirit we can be restored to paradise. In this month's issue we will present to you some very informative articles about the Holy Trinity. Fr. Sopocko's article on the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is very informative. We must keep in mind that he will be beautified in September. Gwen's article on the 49th Eucharistic Congress is also a pleasure to read. We will also share some other articles about sacraments and grace. by Shirley Oleskiw, EADM Director and Editor
Our EADM Centre! Since we began this Apostolate, we have had to struggle to keep our eyes on Jesus and His love and mercy. We have repeatedly reinforced our position of only promoting St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy message. Jesus told St. Faustina, that His Heart was a flame for love of us. Let us examine this statement in our hearts and minds? In today's secular society where everyone wants to do his/her own thing, is there room in our selfish hearts to search for the truth? Here at the EADM Chapel with daily Adoration available, our Lord's heart is burning for love of His people. Are we willing to respond, or do we need a great disaster to strike first? I had a very unique experience which I will share with you. While praying before the Blessed Sacrament, the thought came to my heart that the title of the August Newsletter should be about the Trinity. I pondered this because of my lack of knowledge about what to write. The next day, I went to my mailbox and someone has left a book there called Theology for Beginners, and as I read it, it was all about the Trinity. I thank God and the person who left it there. I never cease to be in awe about how good God is. Gwen Herman, one of our Board Directors, attended the 49th Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City. In an article she will share her experience of attending the Congress. She shared with me the importance of Eucharistic Adoration for our times, and how it was stressed at the Congress. With renewed hope, we will continue to pray so that more people will take advantage of beginning their heaven here on earth. We are still waiting for the wrought iron fencing to be installed, in the front of the Chapel. For Mary's Garden, we have purchased the fountain and different statues of Our Lady of the various apparition sites from around the world. If you want to sponsor a particular one, just let us know. We will have one of Lourdes, Guadeloupe, Fatima, Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Sorrows and the Divine Mercy in the Centre. We will also have benches in front of each Grotto, which will be placed on a marble base. Father Kubash is still sick, so we need your prayers to give him strength, so that he can regain his health. Please pray for our Apostolate, as Satan hates Divine Mercy and would do anything to destroy it. by Shirley Oleskiw Masses will be held on Thursdays August 14, 21 & 28. @ 7:00 pm. The Mystery of the Holy Trinity
Like every free and rational being, God has His personality, that is, He possesses Himself and His nature as an independent being. He acts of Himself, with full consciousness, infinite authority and unimpaired perfect right. Faith tells us that God differs from all other personal beings inasmuch as in Him is not only one Person, but three Persons, each having one common nature in His own specific manner. The Father possesses Divine nature, not being born and not descending from anyone. The Father recognizes Himself and through this cognition He gives birth to an Image, living, perfect and equal to Himself, and bestows on It His own divine nature. This Image is the Son of God Who is begotten of the Father, or in other words, arises from His reason and cognition and is, therefore, called the Wisdom and the Word. Since the Father and the Son posses the same Nature, They know and love One Another, and the manifestation of this Love is the Holy Spirit. The Father and the Son, through this reciprocal Love, confer Their essence and nature on the third Divine person for Him to possess. The Holy Spirit is this third Person. It is His property to proceed from the love of the Father and Son and therefore He is called Love, Holiness and the Gift, as the manifestation and result of their Love. The Son of God in the discourse at the Last Supper, promised the apostles the help of the Holy Spirit. On this occasion, He stated that not only would the Father send the Holy Spirit in the name of the Son, but that He Himself would send the Spirit from the Father. Thus both together send the Spirit (Jn 15:26). This external statement issued by Christ at a particular moment in created time, was only a manifestation of the interior eternal procession of the Divine persons. The foundation of the teaching regarding the Holy Trinity is the firm irrevocable truth that there are no differences among the three Divine Persons other than the manner of their procession. All three Persons are one God, possessing one Nature, in which they reciprocally recognize and love each other. No one is able to comprehend the tenderness, the glowing love and supreme happiness with which the Father, from eternity, is always We know about the Holy Trinity only from Revelation since this truth is a mystery inaccessible to the human reason. Through
God's gift of allowing us to gaze into His most intimate life. He proves this when He said, " No longer do I call you servants, because
the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you
friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you" (Jn 15:15). Does this not give us reason to love God with greater love, since He treats us with greater Mercy and more like a father? For He shows us already something of His glory, which one day we shall see, when the veil is lifted in Heaven. This is the great Mercy of God which we should accept and for which we should be grateful. Thus the devotion to the Mercy of God is also devotion to the Holy Trinity and leads to a better understanding of the Trinity through faith and love. What a wonderful world of living harmony, peaceful activity, communicative perfection and differentiated unity! This ocean of power, love, and wisdom radiates outwardly with beauty and with the charm of infinite Mercy, which we should honor, but above all trust in! Reference: Mercy of God by Fr. Michael Sopocko
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
"It is not good for man to be alone. I will make him a suitable partner for him" (Gen3:18) Christian marriage was raised to the dignity of a
Sacrament by the presence of Jesus at the wedding of Cana. In the The sacrament of Matrimony cannot be administered by a priest at all. It is in Matrimony, for the man and woman to be married (provided they are baptized) administer it to each other. They must have their parish priest there, or another with his consent. The Church speaks of the matter and form of this sacrament. Here we only glance at what must be done and what must be said. Matrimony requires that the man and woman make announcement in the presence of witnesses of their wishes to be husband and wife. Matrimony is (to some at least) the surprising sacrament. They had not expected that marriage, with the use of sex and procreation which is bound up with the primary reason for its existence as an institution, should be made a special way of receiving sanctifying grace. In fact, marriage is, supernaturally, in high honor. St. Paul (Eph 5 23:30) compares the union of husband and wife with that of Christ and His Church. Once received, the sacrament of Matrimony is continually operative while both partners live, giving special graces and aids where new situations arise and new difficulties call for them. The problem with most marriages of our times, is that the husband and wife do not daily pray for there marriage. Calling on God's help, throughout the day, can be of great assistance. Most couples also do not spend any time in praying as a couple. Spending adoration time before the Blessed Sacrament together or separately can strengthen a marriage to new heights, where they can overcome many obstacles. The sacrament of marriage and the family unit are being attacked in today's times more than anytime in history. By downplaying marriage and the family, procreation is also affected. Fewer children are born and many more are aborted. Let us pray for our newly weds to trust and turn to God Reference: Theology for Beginners by F. J. Sheed
Sacrament of the Sick
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord (Apoc. 14:13). Death is the most important moment in the life of man because his eternity depends on it. For this reason, the enemy of our salvation usually assaults the souls of the dying with the greatest violence and incites them to despair. Thus the sick person is visited with thoughts full of distrust and fear that God does not have good intentions towards him, that He will let some evil fall upon him, that He will not forgive these great and numerous sins which he has committed throughout his life and which now crowd his thoughts. He forgets that he is a child of God, and cannot even pray. Impatience in enduring sufferings take hold of him and he becomes irritable with those who surround him and feels resentment, dislike and bitterness towards them. The Merciful Christ has prepared a special help for this most important and dreadful moment of a man's whole life, that is the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. It imparts special grace to the dying man, takes away his sins, evil inclinations and the like. This sacrament uplifts the spirit and confirms it in good, and it even has the power to restore bodily health. In principle this Sacrament increases sanctifying grace. If, however, grave sins remain on the soul of the man who, because of physical weakness, is unable to confess his sins but on receiving Holy Oils does not resist grace, then the sacrament operates according to its secondary effects, namely, it takes away these sins. Moreover, it effaces venial sins. This sacrament brings also relief from temporal punishment in proposition of the man receiving it. Above all the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick uplifts the spirit of the dying man and confirms him in good. It causes this by awakening great trust in the Mercy of God so that the sick person suffers with patience all the inconveniences and pains which trouble him, and resist the temptations of Satan with greater fortitude.
The grace proper to this sacrament is the spiritual elevation "Is any one among you sick? Let him bring in the presbyters of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord" (James5:14).This also corresponds to the condition of the sick person himself who, deprived of his strength, cannot remove the proclivities of his sin but looks forward to help from Divine Mercy to which he submits himself with Exerts taken from God is Mercy by Fr. Michael Sopocko
The Holy Trinity!The Father, Son & Holy Spirit
When we are baptized, we become Children of God, in the name of the Triune God. In prayer we unite ourselves with the Triune God. During the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we are a people gathered together in the unity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is the central mystery of our faith, its like a puzzle, which sheds light on every aspect of our lives. In the New Testament, God revealed Himself as a Trinity of Persons. Through the Incarnation, God's Son assumed our humanity and in this way entered into human history. By God's self-revelation in and through Jesus Christ, we can understanding who God is. God is Infinite Spirit, and no one has seen God, but He is a living God. Several years ago, I attended a retreat based on the Holy Trinity. It was a awesome experience. I never forgot the powerful lesson. At that retreat, I finally understood, who the Holy Spirit was. I understood how the Father eternally generates the Son, the Son generates the Father. I also understood that the Holy Spirit was equal to the Father and to the Son, but was also the love between the Father and the Son. After that I continued to ponder the majesty of the Trinity, one day I was pondering our Lord on the crucifix, trying to understand the Father. In my soul I heard these words, "As you see the Son, so you see the Father". I had come to a much clearer picture of the Trinity, through Jesus Christ, without attaining full knowledge of His infinite majesty and glory. That God the Father is our Creator. God the Father was
revealed though Christ ( the Redeemer) His life, teaching and saving
deeds. Jesus, the Son, is the Word made flesh and dwelt among us. The
Holy Spirit, is the "breath", the Sanctifier or consoler. In the briefest outline the doctrine of the Trinity contains four
truths: 1)In the one The Trinity is the supreme mystery of our faith. This does not mean that we cannot know anything about, but a truth that we cannot know everything about. As Catholics we must learn to know our faith. We need to study the Trinity, so that we can respond to questions about this sublime mystery. God is Love. Pope Benedict XV1, began his pontificate with his first encyclical called God is Love. Do you have a copy? Have you taken the time to study this very important document about the Trinity? We have copies here at the Centre, which we can forward to you. The Church on earth is at war. It is the strangest of wars, because we as laity, we are called not to defeat, but to embrace. Not simply to enlarge the Church, but to bring souls in union with Chrit. Through educated knowledge of our faith we can become good soldiers for Christ and His Church. by Shirley Oleskiw
Divine Mercy Billboards
Once again we thank our faithful sponsors for responding to our call to keep putting up the Divine Mercy Image on billboards. Jesus made many promises to the faithful who would work to spread His message and Image of mercy throughout the world. Making the Image of Our Lord available to the public is one of our Corporal works of mercy. We don't know how many graces God has bestowed on the people that have seen the Image. Just like being exposed to the sun, we cannot tell we have been burned until we feel it
on our skin. If you would like to sponsor part of a billboard, let us
International Eucharistic Congress - 2008
I was asked to share some of my experiences from the 2008 International Eucharist Congress (IEC) that was held June 15-22/08 in Quebec City. This was an excellent faith enriching experience, and a trip that will be remembered. The Eucharistic Congress took place at the Quebec City fair grounds which was renamed Eucharistic City for the 7-day event. The opening Ceremonies were Sunday, June 15th beginning at 3:00 pm in Colisee Pepsi with 15,000 people in attendance. There were a number of dignitaries present, including the 2008 IEC President Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who welcomed everyone to the Congress. The papal legate His Eminence Jozef Cardinal Tomko celebrated the Eucharist, gave a message from the Holy Father, and declared the Congress officially open. There was an impressive several-hundred voice choir that accompanied the prayer and praise of the assembly. Each day following (June 16-21st) had a similar format. Although there are many items to write about, I thought I would mention a few comments from the wonderful catechesis and witnessing we heard. Jean Vanier (founder of L'Arche): He reminds us that Jesus said, He who welcomes the smallest child or the weakest in society
welcomes me, and the one who welcomes me, welcomes God. He also reminded us the importance of Father Nicolas Buttet (founder of Eucharistic Fraternity): His talk gave many examples of youth who had come, with hurts, problems, and were virtually as low as they could go, and how they discovered Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. He said God meets us where we are and gets us to where he is; he builds us up everyday. We can be disfigured by suffering, but can be transformed by God. He quoted St. Faustina who would say the Throne of Mercy is at the Blessed Tabernacle. Most Reverend Luis Antonio Tagle (Bishop of Imus,
Philippines): The Bishop spoke on three topics, Worship of Jesus, Spiritual Worship of the Baptized and Authentic Adoration. He described Authentic Adoration, as being present, resting and beholding. Bishop Tagle said the Roman Centurion can be a model of adoration. He monitored Jesus from His arrest to the Cross. The Centurion was vigilant, observing and focused on watching Jesus first
out of duty but eventually he was contemplating Him in Sunday, June 22 at the Plains of Abraham, the Closing Eucharist was celebrated once again by the Papal Legate His Eminence Jozef Cardinal Tomko. The homily was given by His Holiness Pope Benedict XV1, via satellite on big screens on the grounds. It poured rain but it did not dampen the spirits of anyone in attendance. To view the Catechesis /Witnessing or Eucharistic Celebrations you can go the Official IEC 2008 website and view on the website or the DVD's are available for purchase. The next International Eucharist Congress will take place in four years in Dublin, Ireland. In addition in being able to attend the IEC 2008, we were able to visit some Holy Sites in Quebec. There was Notre-Dame-du-Cap Shrine on the St. Lawrence River. This is the Canadian National Shrine to Mary, our Blessed Mother. We visited the Convent of Jesus and Mary with the tomb of (Cont'd on page 12)
Blessed Dina Belanger (1897-1929) in Quebec City. This was a young Canadian girl who was extraordinary, while appearing outwardly very ordinary. We also visited Saint Ann-du Beaupre, a beautiful church dedicated to Mary's mother. Lastly we stopped at St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, built by Blessed Brother Andre Bessette. Brother Andre had a great devotion to St. Joseph, and this is one of the largest Churches built in honor of St. Joseph. Overall this was an extraordinary trip with many spiritual blessings. Submitted by Gwen Herman
The Supernatural Life
"We shall see Him as He is" (1 Jn 3:2) When we come to die, there is only one question that matters, have we sanctifying grace? If we have, then to heaven we shall go. We may have to have cleaned or cleared certain matters on the way, but eventually to heaven we will get. If we do not, our souls simply lack the powers that living in heaven calls for. The powers of intellect and will that go with our natural life are not sufficient; heaven calls for powers of knowing and loving higher than our nature of self has. We need super-natural life, and we must get it here upon earth. We need to look at grace more closely, and we need to grasp this gift in order to live our lives more intelligently. First it is supernatural, it is wholly above our nature, there is nothing that we can do to give it to ourselves. We can have it, only as God gives it to us, and He is entirely free in the giving. That is why it is called grace; and because its object is to unite us with God, it is called God inserts our soul. He sets it functioning, giving us new life, we are given the power to love in a new way. We will not see God face to face here on earth, but its elevating work has begun. On earth we get the supernatural life. This gift gives us a new power of understanding truth, by faith, it gives the will new powers of reaching out to goodness by hope and charity (which is love). Faith, hope and charity become real and not just a feeling. Jesus tells Nicodemus, "Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:3). The supernatural life in our souls is a new Fact, as real as the natural life we have to start with. The powers it gives are facts too; they enable us to do things which without them we could not do. They are as real as eyesight, and considerably more important. Without eyesight, we could not see the material world. But without sanctifying grace we should not be able to see God direct, which is the very essence of living in heaven. Not only that. Here below we should not be sharers of the divine life, sons of God, capable already of taking hold of God by faith, hope and charity, capable of meriting increase of life. This increase of life must be realized; one can be more alive or less, and our life in heaven will differ according to the intensity of faith and hope and charity in our souls when we come to die. Grace is not just a way of saying that a soul is in God'
s favor; it is a real life, with its own proper powers, living in the soul; and he who has it is a new man. God indwells in us This
indwelling is by invitation only. In infancy and baptism the sponsor extends the invitation; as we come to reason, we make the invitation our own. We can make the choice of following the will of God or not. At any For all of us it is a lifelong struggle. And its scene is the will. The will is that in us which decides, and it decides according to what it loves. In obedience to God, our will is the point
of contact through which the supernatural life flows to us. A mortal Actual graces help us to grow in sanctifying grace, but we will have to cover that in another article, as there is not enough Excerpts taken from Theology for Beginners by F. Sheed
Dear Apostles of Divine Mercy, Our EADM Centre!
Here at the EADM Centre we continue with Adoration daily at our Chapel, however, we still require more people to sign up and make a commitment to our Lord. We have now printed and distributed to the parish priests in the Regina Archdiocese over 120 posters about our 7th Annual Divine Mercy Conference and we included copies of our registration forms. We also made up a new poster advertising the availability of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, which we included in the packages. We also printed 10,000 copies of our Message of Mercy pamphlet, which are now ready for distribution upon request for a small donation. We refinished the pine log siding on our Centre, to give it a fresh new look. The sidewalk repair for handicapped persons, in the front of the Chapel has been completed by the City of Regina. The North part of our front yard has been completed with flower beds and mulched with ornamental bark nuggets. By the end of June our wrought iron fencing should be completed and then we will begin work on Mary’s Garden. This area in front of the Chapel will be dedicated to our Blessed Mother, with Grotto’s to her various apparitions around the world. It will also have a fountain and seating areas. For the month of July, please pray for our beautiful priests. What would we do without them? Fr. Kubash is very ill, please pray for him. Also pray that more people would come to visit Jesus. by Shirley Oleskiw Masses will be held on Thursdays July 11 & 25 @ 7:00 pm. The Institution of the
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Dear Apostles of Divine Mercy, Our EADM Centre!
EADM and Devotion to Mary
WACOM–Rome April 2-6, 2008 Giving To Us the Most Blessed Virgin Mary “All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth” (Ps. 24:10), but Redemption is the greatest work of Divine Mercy…Mary took an active part in this ineffable mystery. HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Our Pilgrimage to Italy along the seaport and beaches. The weather was beautiful and the views were exquisite.
Mary, Leads us to Her Son! |
"Who...will understand the mercies of the Lord? (Ps. 106:43)
generating the Son, and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Son and Father. All the brilliance, fire and joy of the love which acts, enlivens and enflames creatures is only a very weak reflection of the eternal generation of the Son by the Father and of the surge and procession of the Holy Spirit from the blazing Ocean of Divine Love which exists between the Father and Son.
We always address the Holy Trinity, to begin any prayer, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or the Divine Liturgy. We say in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Do we ever stop to ponder what we are really saying or to whom we are addressing this salutation?
Do we just take it for granted as we cross ourselves?
Divine Nature, there are three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 2) No one of the persons is either of the others, each is wholly Himself 3) The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. 4) They are not three Gods but one God.
Each possesses Divine Nature, each can do all that goes with being God.
Jesus also was begotten and took on our human nature, except for sin.
Jesus told us many times in Sacred Scripture, that He had a relationship with the Father through prayer and that He came from the Father and will return to Him. He showed us how He was always obedience to the will of the Father, even to His death on the Cross. 
My favorite spot in the summer is visiting our northern lakes and enjoying some fishing. I am looking forward to taking my grandson and spending a few days enjoying God’s creation. As we enjoy His creation, we shall ponder the goodness of God as it shines through and express our gratitude. It may be admiring a flower in our garden or just to sit by the beach and gaze at the lapping water or enjoying a beautiful summer sunset. Nature is one way to enjoy the presence of God, but now let us transfer our thoughts to the goodness of God which is found in the Church and shows itself through the Sacraments.
our EADM Centre at the beginning of June was the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the priesthood by two of our Spiritual Directors. Fr. Emmett Morrissey and Fr. Louis Kubash. Fr. Morissey was our founding Spiritual Director When I was appointed to begin this Apostolate, he was very helpful in setting up our Apostolate. Due to heart surgery, he had to resign from this position. In 2004 the late Archbishop Peter Mallon appointed Fr. Louis Kubash to be our Spiritual Director, the position he has to the present day. We really appreciate his spiritual guidance, especially during the construction of our Centre and Adoration Chapel. We thank God and we offer them both congratulations and our prayers of thanksgiving. We also thank Fr. Rushka for constant support and the Masses that he offers for us here at the Centre. 
Christ came on earth not only for those who were living in the Holy Land during His time but for all men always. Therefore, after He had taken His visible presence from men He left them, as it were, another self, the Church which He entrusted with His teaching, power, worship and Sacraments. We find Christ in the Church. “No one comes to the Father but through Me”(Jn14:6). However, no man comes to Christ but through the Church. We do not belong to Christ unless we belong to the Church actually or by desire (as do the catechumens). Nor do we live the life of Christ except through communion with the Church.
“Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God”(Jn: 3:5).
During the month of June we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the priesthood of two of our Spiritual Directors. Fr. Emmett Morrissey was our founding Spiritual Director in 2001. He was very helpful in beginning our Apostolate. His celebration took place at Blessed Sacrament Church on June 1, with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass followed by a Come and Go Tea at the Hotel Saskatchewan. It was a lovely celebration.
Baptism, the Eucharist and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the “sacraments of Christian initiation,” whose unity must be safeguarded. The sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. For “by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ or Christ’s soldiers, who more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed.” (CCC 1285) 
“God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins” (Eccl. 2:13)
“According to His mercy, He saved us, through the bath of regeneration, and renewal by the Holy Spirit” (Tit. 3:5).
Once again we thank our faithful sponsors for responding to our call to keep putting up the Divine Mercy Image on billboards. 
This month of May, is dedicated it to our Blessed Mother. She chose to appear to the children at Fatima on May 13, 1917. It is also the 150th Anniversary of Our Mother’s apparitions at Lourdes. Mary is the fruit of the Father’s plan of mercy that through the mystery of the Immaculate Conception, she was prepared and later through the Annunciation became the Mother of God. This month’s Newsletter is entitled “Let us turn to Our Heavenly Mother”. As we are children of God, so we are children of Mary, thus we have to turn to her in a special way. Now, in the present time Our Blessed Mother is preparing the world for Her Son’s Second Coming. Our Blessed Mother appeared to St. Faustina many times in 1936 and told her, “I gave the Savior to the world; as for you, you have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but as a just Judge. Oh, how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for [granting ] mercy. If you keep silent now, you will be answering for a great number of souls on that terrible day. Fear nothing. Be faithful to the end. I sympathize with you.” (Diary # 635) St. Faustina responded by means of a novena of one thousand “Hail Mary’s” for nine days in Her praise. Do we pray to Our Blessed Mother? We can pray and do everything in our daily lives through Mary, with Mary and in Mary. She takes our little gestures and places them all before the throne of God. 
supporters for attending our Divine Mercy Sunday celebration and our First Anniversary of Adoration at our Chapel and Centre. We especially thank our Adorers, who have come to the Chapel on a regular basis, and have made this celebration possible.
We all know that the Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy spread the good news of the mercy of Jesus, the Divine Mercy. However, did you know that they also pray to St. Faustina asking her intercession; and have a deep devotion to Mary? In the Religious Articles Room at the EADM Centre in Regina there are many religious articles available for devotion to Mary. Also, situated in the EADM Chapel there are two shrines, one to St. Faustina and one to Mary. On the left side of the Chapel, is the Shrine to St. Faustina with a First Class Relic of St. Faustina for veneration. On the right of the altar and tabernacle, is the Shrine to Mary, with an almost life-sized statue of Mary holding the Baby Jesus known as Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This statue was donated to EADM by their Spiritual Director, Father Louis Kubash. 
bishops, priests, religious and dignitaries. In the opening procession for Mass, the Holy Father passed us. We were about three feet from him. It was a great privilege to be there.
Our Lord dying on the cross gave us His Mother as Mother of Mercy. Mary is the Mother of Mercy under two titles: she is Mother of Jesus, in whom Divine Mercy is incarnate and she continually shows us mercy.
Servant of God John Paul II had known and personally experienced the terrible tragedies of the 20th century and for a long time wondered what could stem the tide of evil. The answer could only be found in God's love. In fact, only Divine Mercy is able to impose limitations on evil; only the almighty love of God can defeat the tyranny of the wicked and the destructive power of selfishness and hate. For this reason, during 
south eastern Italy. After a comfortable flight to Rome, we caught the WACOM bus and were taken to the Villa Maria Ines a Convent Hotel run by the Clarisse Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. They had a Chapel, which gave us a very serene place for prayer. We numbered about 40 delegates from Ghana, Nigeria, Ireland, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Guam, New Zealand and Malaysia. In the afternoon, we visited and obtained our Congress passes from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, had a beautiful supper and retired for the night.
walked to our hotel, as there are no taxis in Lanciano. This is where one of the most famous miracles of the Eucharist appeared over 1200 years ago to a priest that had doubts about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We walked to the Church of St. Francis, only to find it locked. After an inquiry, we were told it opens at 3:00 pm. We went for a snack and entered the Church of the Eucharist. It was an awesome sight. We prayed before Jesus, visible to the human eye, as His Body and His Blood. We also attended Mass, and toured the inside room adjacent to the Church with the explanations and photos of the miracle. The Host is a real slice of the heart muscle, the Blood is in five portions, all equal to their own weight and AB type blood. I truly felt unworthy to be there before this truly visible Jesus, but like Thomas did we need to see? This is for unbelievers to see, as we who believe do not need to see. I was surprised at how few people came to visit Jesus in the Eucharist, and the many who came in bus tours, just stared at the miracle, some did not even show any signs of adoration. I pondered about the lack of people, but then I thought maybe one of the reasons there were so few people, was because there are five other sights in Italy of Eucharistic Miracles.
feet surely paid the price that day, but the sites and views from the high terrain were stupendous. In the valley five kilometers away is situated the Porziuncola (the first church built by St. Francis in 1211) again surrounded by a large church called St. Mary of the Angels.