Digital Marian Helper Winter_2016-2017

24 C 7H?7D > ;BF;H Ǚš M ?DJ;H (&',#'- ǙšǙcWh_Wd$eh] R unning around the living room as a superhero, fighting “bad guys” with his toy sword, making forts and jumping on beds, Peter Dunn seems like a typical 5-year-old boy. He goes to pre-school and loves playing with his siblings. No one would know he only has half a heart — that he needed three surgeries to survive his first two years of life, and is awaiting yet another surgery in the coming months. In 2011, Kerri and Mark Dunn of Foster, Rhode Island, had been happily married for 11 years. The two high school sweethearts had five healthy children. When Mark, a firefighter, and Kerri, a stay-at-home moth- er, learned she was expecting a sixth, they decided to pick out a boy and a girl name. If the baby were a girl, they would name her Maria Faustina. If the baby were a boy, he’d be Peter. At their 20-week ultrasound, they found out their baby was a boy. What they didn’t expect was that he had a severe and rare congenital heart defect called Hypo-Plastic Left Heart Syndrome. Distraught, Kerri turned to prayer. “God, how will I do this? How should I be praying?” Very clearly she heard in her heart: “Do not offer Me your anxious petitions. … Pray as you always do, coming to Me every day. I know what you need. You don’t even have to ask. Just trust in Me. To Me, this is small.” From that day forward, Kerri turned to the prayer that had brought her comfort for many years: “Jesus, I trust in You.” Her devotion to Divine Mercy began in high T O THE HEART OF THE MATTER By Melanie Williams F[j[h XWjjb[Z :Whj^ LWZ[h ed ^_i CWa[#7#M_i^ jh_f je :_id[o MehbZ _d CWo (&',$ >[ iW_Z je ^_i cec" ÆCecco ? mWi j^_da_d] WXekj @[iki WdZ CWho ò]^j_d] j^[ XWZ ]koi Ç F[j[h h[Yel[hi Wø[h ^_i j^_hZ ef[d ^[Whj ikh][ho" m^_Y^ Yecfb[j[Z j^[ h[hekj_d] e\ XbeeZ j^hek]^ ^_i ^[Whj$