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Recently I have been increasingly drawn to the Divine Mercy devotion. At the Catholic leadership conference in Philadelphia I met Fr Michael Gaitley\u2013who is the director of the Divine Mercy shrine in \u00a0Massachusetts and listened to his powerful talk on the Divine Mercy. I have begun praying the Divine Mercy chaplet every day, and have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,75,87,56,28,26,47],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apologetics","tag-catholic-faith","tag-church-history","tag-divine-mercy","tag-homosexuality","tag-saints","tag-supernatural","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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