National Shrine of The Divine Mercy Bulletin June 20, 2021

O Mary, Immaculate Virgin, Pure crystal for my heart, You are my strength, O sturdy anchor! You are the weak heart’s shield and protection. O Mary you are pure, of purity incomparable; At once both Virgin and Mother, You are beautiful as the sun, without blemish, And your soul is beyond all comparison. Your beauty has delighted the eye of the Thrice-Holy One. He descended from heaven, leaving His eternal throne, And took Body and Blood of Virgin’s Heart. O Mother, Virgin, purest of all lilies, Your heart was Jesus’ first tabernacle on earth. Only because no humility was deeper than yours Were you raised above the choirs of Angels and above all Saints. O Mary, my sweet Mother, I give you my soul, my body and my poor heart. Be the guardian of my life, Especially at the hour of death, in the final strife. Diary 161 From the Diary of St. Faustina Congress is trying to force Americans to pay for abortion. December 27.. Today, I returned to my place of solitude [her private room at the sanatorium]. I had a pleasant trip as I travelled with a certain person w o was t kin her baby to be baptized. We gave her a lift as far as the Church in Podgorze. In order to get out, she put the baby in my arms. When I took it, I offered it, with an ardent prayer, to God so that some day it might give Him special glory. I felt in my soul that the Lor was looking in a special way on that little soul When we arrived on Pradnik, Sister N. helped me to carry my b ndle. When we entered my room, we saw a beautiful paper angel with the inscription, “Gloria in …” I think it is from the sick sister to whom I sent the Christmas tree. Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actio s. And the purer our love becomes, the less th re will be within us for the flames of suffering to feed upon, and the suffering will cease to be a suffering for us; it will become a delight! By the grace of God, I have received suc a disposition of heart that I am never so happy as when I suffer for Jesus, whom I love with every beat of my heart. Diary 849, 303 T HE H YDE A MENDMENT The Hyde Amendment and similar laws have protected taxpayers from funding elective abortion for 45 years. Now, powerful members of Congress want to take away these laws that both Democrats and Republicans have supported for nearly half a century. Billions of taxpayer dollars could be used to pay for abortion. To keep you tax dollar as from going to abortion the U.S. Catholic Bishops urge you to visit the following website and sign the petition: www.NoTaxpayerAbortion. com “. . . we are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil, death and life, the “culture of death” and the “culture of life”. We find ourselves not only faced with but necessarily in the midst of this conflict: we are all involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro- life.” (Pope JohnPaul II - EvangeliumVitae