Shrine of the Divine Mercy

“My heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of fathers to them and that it is for them that the blood and water flowed from my heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy.” — Words of Jesus recorded in “Diary of St Faustina: Divine Mercy In My Soul,” no. 367

A Shrine of Divine Mercy is a place where people come for encouragement, to take a breath, to hear the truth and to experience the living Jesus. The Shrine is a beacon of hope on the pilgrimage of life. A place for people to be renewed in their faith and celebrate the gift of the Holy Eucharist through the Divine Mercy of Jesus.

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor announced a new initiative to bring many spiritual blessings to the Little Rock Diocese, by establishing a Diocesan Shrine of Divine Mercy at St. Edward Parish to serve as a place of pilgrimage, adoration and reconciliation.

The shrine is based on the worldwide divine mercy devotion that developed from the apparitions of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun, who wrote in her diary that she witnessed a vision of Jesus on February 22, 1931, while she was living at a convent in Plock, Poland. She wrote that Jesus had one hand raised in benediction and the other resting over his heart, from which emanated two rays of light.