Pillars of Fire In My Soul

for this work. We have opened up a special office for the promotion of the Divine Mercy message. Every year before the Feast of Mercy we mail a circular letter to the names on our files encouraging them privately to recite the Novena and to receive Holy Communion on the first Sunday after Easter.” Finally, Fr. Andrasz tells of the initial steps taken by the hierarchy towards the approval of the devotion by the Holy See: The favorable attitude of the whole Polish episcopate to the cause of the Divine Mercy in its new form is to be con- sidered the most significant amont the preparatory steps. This favorable attitude was expressed not only by the quiet aquiescence to its spread in our own country, but above all by this fact: that our bishops, at one of their plenary meet- ings, decided to present this matter to the Apostolic See, together with the request for the institution of the Feast of The Divine Mercy on the first Sunday after Easter. As we know from the lips of His Eminence the Primate [Cardinal Hlond], the Congregation of Sacred Rites is already consid- ering this matter. The Theological Society, at its convention in Cracow inApril of 1948, resolved to direct a similar peti- tion to the Holy Father. Divine Mercy … We Trust in You! 79