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Post by guillaume on Feb 14, 2011 13:30:17 GMT
www.divinemercyconference.com/ will be organised in Dublin at the RDS this week-end 19 and 20 of feb next. The program seems interesting enough. even if we have to pay to enter
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 15, 2011 11:53:38 GMT
George Weigel's new book on the last years of Pope John Paul II has some interesting remarks on that pope's rationale for promoting the Divine Mercy devotion, which is often dismissed by unsympathetic commentators as polish eccentricity. According to Weigel, John Paul believed that the answer to the horrible crimes which the Twentieth Century witnessed (and which John Paul himself experienced in Nazi-occupied Poland and under Communism) is for humanity to accept the infinite Divine Mercy as the only remedy for the guilt deriving from these horrors. I confess I have no particular knowledge of the Divine Mercy devotion myself (other than a vague awareness of its origins in interwar Poland with the visions of Sr Faustina) bu this might make a good starting point for discussion. One problem with discussing individual devotions is that their most zealous adherents are often so enthusiastic about them that they find it hard to expalin them to the unconvinced, or to answer direct criticism (because they see the devotion as so self-evidently good that and critic must be in bad faith). A lot of the pro- and anti-Medjugorje literature seems to me to suffer from this; the basic position is taken for granted and explanation is assumed to be unnecessary.
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Post by guillaume on Feb 15, 2011 12:49:56 GMT
I think the Divine Mercy devotion is powerful and simple. the Divine Mercy rosary is the simplest to recite. The promises of Christ regarding this devotion are also powerful. However, in the Trad movement SOME follow this devotion and SOME not. After all, Divine Mercy Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter) is not in the Traditional ORDO. I will be at this conference.
God Bless.
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