Feb 23 & 24, 2013 - Holy Family Parish
Feb 23 & 24, 2013 - Holy Family Parish
Feb 23 & 24, 2013 - Holy Family Parish
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<strong>Parish</strong> News Page 4<br />
We are keeping up with<br />
technology!<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Family</strong> is now providing<br />
Online Giving as an electronic tool<br />
for contributions so you can give<br />
via the ‘web.’ Online Giving helps<br />
you plan and manage your giving<br />
throughout the year with scheduling<br />
and reporting tools. This also<br />
helps the parish streamline and<br />
plan our cash flow.<br />
Go to our parish website at www.holyfamilyshorewood.org to get<br />
started today.<br />
We invite you to help us bring colorful<br />
and fragrant beauty to our Easter worship<br />
though donations for Easter Flowers.<br />
There is a special envelope in your<br />
mailed packet or Online Giving. You<br />
may chose to honor or remember a loved<br />
one(s) by writing a name(s) on the Easter<br />
Flowers’ envelope. Names received by<br />
March 10 will be honored in the Easter<br />
bulletin. Donations received that exceed<br />
the needed Easter Flower purchases will<br />
be utilized throughout the year to beautify<br />
the church to the greater glory of our<br />
Lord year round! Peace ~<br />
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple: God loves us — all of us<br />
and wants us to recognize that his mercy is greater than our sins. The<br />
message urges us to call upon him with trust, receive his mercy, and<br />
let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share his joy.<br />
The Divine Mercy message is one we can call to mind simply by remembering<br />
ABC:<br />
A - Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly,<br />
repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out<br />
upon us and upon the whole world.<br />
B - Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow<br />
through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to<br />
others just as He does to us.<br />
C - Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of<br />
His mercy are dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus,<br />
the more we will receive.<br />
This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on<br />
the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun<br />
who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600<br />
pages recording the revelations she received about God's mercy. Even<br />
before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun<br />
to spread.<br />
Spend time this Lent learning more about the mercy of God. There are<br />
devotional items available in the narthex for those who are interested<br />
in learning more about the Divine Mercy.
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