Divine Mercy in the Liturgy: It's NOT Just a Devotion!
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Divine Mercy is both a Message and a Devotion. As JPII and Pope Benedict stated, the message of Divine Mercy is NOT optional. It is the "nucleus of the Gospel" and an integral part of Christian life and prayer - not a secondary devotion. So in answer to all the criticism about St. Faustina and the devotional of Divine Mercy, Fr. Chris Alar explains where Divine is within the Mass: EVERYWHERE!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, thank you, everybody, for joining us live here for a special edition of explaining the faith. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Father Chris Ailar, the provincial superior of the Marian fathers, and it is an honor to have all of you with us. |
| 0:12.8 | We have a packed house, hundreds and hundreds of people here on the grounds of divine mercy, and we are looking forward to bringing you a new talk. You probably saw the title and |
| 0:23.4 | thought, well, I've already seen Father Chris walk through the Mass and this is, no, this is something |
| 0:27.8 | different. This is each part of the Mass. I'm going to walk you through and show where Divine Mercy |
| 0:34.2 | is in every part of the Mass. It's brand new. I just did it at five o'clock this morning. |
| 0:41.1 | So you can't say you heard it before. Okay. And before we start with our prayer, it's an absolute |
| 0:47.3 | honor to have with us in our presence, Bishop Ricken. He is the Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, |
| 0:53.1 | although he fortunately said he's a Packers fan. |
| 0:56.8 | So all of you Detroit Lions fans rise up and revolts. |
| 1:01.5 | And so, but it's an honor to have Bishop Bricken with us. |
| 1:06.0 | He is the quintessential example of a good shepherd. |
| 1:09.3 | This is what we need in our church today. These good |
| 1:12.6 | bishops, these good shepherds. And so pray for our church. So let us begin in the name of the |
| 1:17.5 | Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit |
| 1:23.5 | down upon us that we may see and open our hearts to receive this grace of divine mercy Sunday, |
| 1:30.3 | but also every single day at the Mass to see the grace that you give us and the gift of divine |
| 1:36.5 | mercy. And we ask Mother Mary, you accompany us on this journey, and we ask all this through Christ, |
| 1:42.6 | our Lord. Amen. Name of the Father into the son |
| 1:45.5 | and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay. So I do not have my normal length of time here. So we're going |
| 1:50.6 | to try to turn on, fasten the seatbelts because we got a lot to cover. But as I said, it's not a walk |
| 1:56.5 | through the mass like I did before. This is more where we find divine mercy in the mass, which is |
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