This weekend, we celebrate a First Friday in honor of the Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy Sunday. While the two devotions have about 300 years between them, they share a common message and a similar ...

Historically in Catholic devotional life, the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the First Friday of June observed as the proper feast day of the Sacred Heart. This year, the ...

Three years after St. John Paul II officially declared the Second Sunday of Easter as “Divine Mercy Sunday” for the universal Church in the year 2000, Divine Mercy parish was officially formed in ...

For many centuries the Sunday after Easter was known as “Low Sunday” in contrast to the High Sunday of Easter. However, in recent years, this same Sunday has been given another name and another ...

Sacred Heart Church in Winnetka and St. Philip the Apostle Church in Northfield, due to merge July 1 as part of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Renew My Church consolidation, have a new name, Divine Mercy, ...

Bishops in Vietnam are giving liturgical instructions to fight the spread of superstition, wrong beliefs and abuse of liturgical celebrations. They say Catholics are active in attending liturgical ...

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus takes on special significance this year, centenary year of the extension of the feast to the whole world. The Church, with traditional prudence and reserve, did ...