EWTN Press Release: Divine Mercy Mass & Preview Show

EWTN To Air Divine Mercy Mass & Preview Show
Live From The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy

Hear from Special Guests & Join the Initiative To
Place Divine Mercy Images in Every Home & Parish

Irondale, AL – The EWTN Global Catholic Network will air the Mass of Divine Mercy live from The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass. at 1 p.m. ET, Sunday, April 7 with an encore at 1 a.m. ET, Monday, April 8. The Mass will be preceded by a special Preview Show at noon on Sunday, April 7 with an encore at midnight – as well as several other specials!

 

The Preview Program, hosted by Fr. Michael Gaitley and Fr. Joseph Roesch, will feature Saint Luke Productions’ Leonardo and Patti Defilippis who produced the movie “Therese,” the one-man show “Vianney,” and “Benedictus Moments, short daily reflections of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

 

You’ll also hear the dramatic conversion story of Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, now a member of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, but formerlya high school dropout who was kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice, and thrown in jail multiple times. His story will probably move you to purchase his bestselling 2010 book, “No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy” (http://bit.ly/WsTQaN) and perhaps his latest release, “Under the Mantle: Marian Thoughts from a 21^st Century Priest,” http://bit.ly/XX0w22, which he will also be discussing.

 

Finally, you’ll hear from Mark Fanders, an associate lay member of the Marians, who will discuss the Marians’ important new initiative to place Divine Mercy images in every home and parish during the Year of Faith. (For Divine Mercy items, please go to http://bit.ly/ZG3y7g and type “Divine Mercy” in the search box.)

 

This is all followed by a “Divine Mercy Holy Hour” live from the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Ala. with EWTN’s own friars! Airs live at 4 p.m. ET, Sunday, April 7, with encores at 4 a.m. ET, Monday, April 8; 3:30 a.m. ET, Thursday, April 11; and 2 p.m. ET, Friday, April 12.

 

You also will not want to miss “Franciscan University Presents Divine Mercy and Mary,” in which Host Michael Hernon and Theology Professors Dr. Regis Martin and Dr. Scott Hahn discuss questions related to Divine Mercy, Marian consecration and more with the Marians’ Fr. Michael Gaitley. Airs 10 p.m. ET, Sunday, April 7, with an encore at 5 a.m. ET, Thursday, April 11.

 

Our Lord promised St. Faustina: “I want to grant a complete pardon to the souls that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on the Feast of My mercy.” You can read more about the promises Our Lord made concerning this feast in “The Diary of St. Maria Faustina,” http://bit.ly/10RcSYg.

 

The Divine Mercy Mass and Preview Program may be watched or listened to live on EWTN television by cable or satellite (www.ewtn.com/channelfinder), streaming audio or video on the Internet (http://origin.ewtn.com/audiovideo/index.asp), shortwave (http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm), EWTN mobile (http://www.ewtnapps.com/), on the EWTN Radio Network via our affiliates (http://www.ewtn.com/radio/amfm.htm), on satellite radio (http://www.sirius.com/ewtn), or on iHeartRadio (www.ewtn.com/radio).

 

EWTN Global Catholic Network, in its 32^th year, is available in over 225 million television households in more than 140 countries and territories. With its direct broadcast satellite television and radio services, AM & FM radio networks, worldwide short-wave radio station, Internet website www.ewtn.com, electronic and print news services, and publishing arm, EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world.