Faithful at the Parish Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe dress in blue, white and red to represent the rays in the Divine Mercy image. (Courtesy photo)
Throughout the Diocese of Camden and across the world, parish communities celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday on April 7. Always held on the second Sunday of Easter, the feast was established by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2000, when he canonized Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. The 20th century Polish mystic’s life included visions of Jesus Christ urging her to promote devotion to his mercy, and his promises to grant complete forgiveness of sins and remission of temporal punishment for those who prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
Anna Marie Scavetti, of Saint John Neumann Parish, North Cape May, writes her prayer intentions to be included in a basket presented during the liturgy at Saint Brendan the Navigator, Avalon. (Photo by Maria Toci D’Antonio)Celerina Murray prays before an image of Jesus during the Lindenwold parish’s bilingual English and Spanish celebration. (Photo by Maria Toci D’Antonio)The Divine Mercy image passes through a church full of faithful of all ages reciting the chaplet in Avalon. (Photo by Maria Toci D’Antonio)
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