Preparing for Christ's Gift of Mercy

The day before the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, turns to a favorite passage from the Diary of St. Faustina.

View his homily, videotaped at the Marian Helpers Center in Stockbridge, Mass., on Thursday, June 14:

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