Aired 4/17
Five years ago, my aunt had to be put in a nursing home, and when we put her in the nursing home, my sister remembered, “where is that Jesus picture”, and Catherine always called it ‘that Jesus picture’. It was in an old ratty box, so it was falling apart. It was in terrible shape. We opened the box and took it out. The frame was all broken on the back. The image itself wasn’t even in the frame any longer, and we didn’t know what it was. We had never known. We knew my grandmother kept it around forever and that she got it from her mother and father, but nobody knew what it was. We knew it was important because it had a red wax seal on the front.
It is one of the Holy Face images from the original images that came about from the miracle of 1849 in St. Peter’s Basilica. At that time, the Pope had fled Rome because of a revolution that was threatening Catholic France and threatening Rome itself. And when he had he ordered Veronica’s Veil to be put on exposition for three days so that people could venerate and pray to save Rome, and on the third day the image on the veil began to glow and became lifelike, and the eyes were deep sunken and wore an expression of really great pain. And this stayed that way. The glow and the image stayed that way for three hours, and they rang the bells of the basilica so hundreds of people came to see what was happening.
Vicki Schreiner of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face
Aired 4/11
Christ’s Gift of Interior Peace; Divine Mercy Correctly Understood; Reparation to the Blessed Sacrament; Lessons from Doubting Thomas (From Hamon’s Meditations, From the Housetops Publication and the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger) Aired 4/11
There is nothing that man needs more than Divine Mercy — that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights of the holiness of God.
In this place we become particularly aware of this. From here, in fact, went out the Message of Divine Mercy that Christ himself chose to pass on to our generation through Blessed Faustina.
And it is a message that is clear and understandable for everyone. Anyone can come here, look at this image of the merciful Jesus, His Heart radiating grace, and hear in the depths of his own soul what Blessed Faustina heard: “Fear nothing. I am with you always” (Diary, 586).
And if this person responds with a sincere heart: “Jesus, I trust in you,” he will find comfort in all his anxieties and fears. In this “dialogue of abandonment,” there is established between man and Christ a special bond that sets love free. And “there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear” (1 Jn 4:18).
Pope Saint John Paul II
Tomorrow is Divine Mercy Sunday, and Jesus has promised a complete forgiveness of sins and their punishment to the souls who will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on this feast day. To receive these graces, you must receive Holy Communion in a state of grace; going to Confession beforehand, and trusting in His […]
We continue to read the famous sermon of St. Leonard of Port Maurice and note that these truths are one of the reasons why God provided feasts like Divine Mercy Sunday.
Dan and Tom shared their recent experiences as retreatants at a “Samson Healing Retreat,” an event run by The King’s Men and held at Discovery House. Each describes his transformation during the retreat, resulting from the shared devotion to Christ along with the other men and the eventual mutual trust and love each man formed with and demonstrated to […]
Thank you for listening to WQPH 89.3 FM Shirley-Fitchburg, Queen of Perpetual Help and welcome to another edition of WQPHs Local Matters. On this week’s broadcast, we have a special interview from our very own Mary Anne Harold. She is interviewing Vicki Schreiner who is from Oklahoma City, and she has some fascinating stories about […]
