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National Shrine of The Divine Mercy (the official website) 42°17′19.51″N 73°18′39.99″W / 42.2887528°N 73.3111083°W / 42.2887528; -73.3111083 This article about a Catholic Church in the United States church building is a stub .
The Divine Mercy is a Catholic devotion to the mercy of God associated with the reported apparitions of Jesus to Faustina Kowalska. [1]The Divine Mercy devotion is composed of several practices such as the Divine Mercy Sunday, the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy or the Divine Mercy image, which Kowalska describes in her diary as "God's loving mercy" towards all people, especially for sinners.
The image of the Divine Mercy is a depiction of Jesus Christ that is based on the Divine Mercy devotion initiated by Faustina Kowalska. According to Kowalska's diary, Jesus told her "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish .
The words used in the Bible in Hebrew to designate mercy, including divine mercy, are rakham (Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 55:7), khanan (Deut. 4:31) and khesed (Nehemiah 9:32). [2]In the Greek of the New Testament and of the Septuagint, the word most commonly used to designate mercy, including divine mercy, is eleos.
On Divine Mercy Sunday, 18 April 2004 under the care of Cardinal Audrys Bačkis, the church was restored, blessed, and given the title Shrine of the Divine Mercy. The church was adapted for the display of the original Image of Merciful Jesus , painted according to the vision of Saint Faustina Kowalska by artist Eugeniusz Kazimirowski in 1934.
Eugeniusz Marcin Kazimirowski (11 November 1873 – 23 September 1939 in Białystok) was a Polish painter, and member of the realism movement.He is best known for the first depiction of the Divine Mercy image in 1934, based on a request from Faustyna Kowalska and her confessor Michael Sopoćko.
Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity [19] The devotion to Divine Mercy Sunday grew rapidly after its designation by Pope John Paul II and is now widely celebrated by Catholics. [20] The Divine Mercy image is often carried in processions on Divine Mercy Sunday, and is placed ...
Divine Mercy was released on VHS by the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception in 1994. [ 3 ] A revised version of Divine Mercy was released on DVD on January 4, 2001; this version shortens the film's running time from 63 minutes to 47 minutes.