Here's this excellent set of videos from Father Brendan Kilcoyne

...that I discovered recently. He's a bold one. Here he holds forth on the Divine Mercy devotion that the Church will focus on tomorrow, the second Sunday of Easter, which we call 'Divine Mercy Sunday,' after the Holy Father John Paul II.

Since I completed reading Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska's diaries, three years ago, I have seen the Divine Mercy as a more complete vision of what Saint Margaret Mary had seen a couple centuries or so earlier when she saw the Sacred Heart. And Sister Faustyna said that Christ Himself had required that she make a written record of the visions. Sister Margaret Mary was more retired and more reluctant to become as famous. So, as Father says in the video above, we may profit well from the Divine Mercy devotion of the 1930s, which in many ways prepared the Church for the horrors of the second World War, or at least the fallout from that war. These days the war on the Church is coming increasingly from within her, and her stance on such modern evils as abortion and euthanasia is being attacked by even her own. The season of Divine Mercy hasn't yet ended, and thank heaven. 

Rebooting the blog

I shall shortly be leaving the parish of S. Joseph's, just south of Derby city. It's been a difficult few years, because I arrived in the middle of the first lockdown, and like almost everything else the continuity of the parish community was all but ruined by the lockdown measures. Thank you, dear Government. We have had some ten months of explosive growth, but now the lockdown priest is back on the road.

It does mean that the parish website will shortly die the death, or as the English Bibles would say, dying it will die. So, this personal blog comes back to life. Because, the beat goes on.