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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Friday, May 10th, 2019. It is Friday. Today is Friday, May 10th, 2019. It is also the feast day of a great saint,

St. Damien of Malachi. Now, before we get into our final day talking about the divine mercy,

let's talk about this incredible saint, who is such an example to us of how we need to share the mercy that God gives us and be merciful to other people.

St. Damien was a Belgian priest, so he lived in Europe in Belgium.

However, as a priest, he left Belgium and went to an island in Hawaii,

in the area of Hawaii. There was an island where people that suffered from the disease of leprosy

were forced to go. They were exiled there because at the time there was no cure for leprosy,

and people were very afraid that this disease

would contaminate other people. So just like during the time of Jesus, lepers were cast out.

They oftentimes had very little food, very little to support or medicine or education.

They were simply just abandoned. But Father Damien had mercy on them. He went to them in their pain and their suffering, and he gave his whole life to serve them.

He dressed their wounds. He taught them. He built them shelters. He gave them everything. He loved them

in the way that Jesus loved us. So that is the great saint, Father Damian of Molokai, who had great

pity on those suffering from leprosy. Now, this week, we, of course, have been talking about the divine mercy devotion.

We talked about the fact that mercy is love when it encounters suffering, pain, and sin.

We talked about St. Faustina, this mystic, who received visions of Jesus that are how we know about

the divine mercy devotion. We talked about the feast, Divine Mercy Sunday.

We talked about the image that Jesus wanted painted of himself

so that we might know how he loves us

and how mercy is his gift to us.

We also talked about the nine-day prayer for the Divine Mercy, the novena, the chaplet, which we say with a rosary, and finally, the hour of mercy, which is between three and four o'clock every single day.

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