{"id":1006,"date":"2016-04-02T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:34:36","slug":"divine-mercy-picture-sparks-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/divine-mercy-picture-sparks-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy picture sparks grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">From the Mail:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-HaveMercyOhLord.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1007\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1007 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-HaveMercyOhLord.jpg\" alt=\"1-HaveMercyOhLord\" width=\"566\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-HaveMercyOhLord.jpg 566w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-HaveMercyOhLord-255x360.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Picture of a devotee touching an image of the Divine Mercy inside the Church of the Divine Mercy in El Salvador City, Mindanao Philippines. Taken 28 March 2016 by Mike Dial.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Church of the Divine Mercy has a unique roof design in the shape of the Crown of Thorns, and located just behind a large Divine Mercy statue. It was consecrated February 11, 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Divine Mercy Church interior can accommodate 2,500 pilgrims, but in previous years more than 60,000 devotees joined the Divine Mercy Sunday procession and hourly mass, according to Oliver Molinao, spokesman for the Divine Mercy Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Several bougainvillea flowers adorn the steps of the Divine Mercy statue.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">5.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It takes 111 steps to climb to the top of the Divine Mercy statue where an inner chamber inside the heart of Jesus\u2019 contain a tabernacle where one can adore, pray, and petition God.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The 70-foot statue has carefully manicured lawns and adorned by a variety of flowers. A canopy in front is being prepared for the Divine Mercy Sunday mass celebration where more than 60,000 pilgrims are expected to attend. Women are not allowed to have shorts, or pants when climbing to the Eucharistic Heart of the Divine Mercy statue but long skirts are readily available. Photo by: Mike Dial<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">7.<span style=\"line-height: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Divine Mercy statue, in the Divine Mercy Hills of El Salvador, Philippines, is 70 feet when measured from the base and one of the largest in the world. It stands majestically on a hill overlooking the ocean. Aside from the large statue with steps inside the rays, and a unique church with a Crown of Thorns for its roof, the 27 acre Divine Mercy Hills property also has life-sized Stations of the Cross, Mary\u2019s Garden, Field Altar, Retreat and Seminar Facility, Gift Store and convenience areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">8.\u00a0 Many healings and conversion has been attributed to this Divine Mercy place. In their past celebration I have photographed Muslim women on line to receive the healing prayer and blessing from a priest. One of the very first miracle officially recorded there was a picture taken by me. I was visiting on August 25, 2004 and there were no structures yet but only a bamboo shed that was being used for prayer. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I was videotaping the area when I noticed a bright blinking light on the sky. The blinking light appeared on top of a metal marker on the ground where they planned to build the Divine Mercy statue. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I made a still picture of one of the video frame and gave it to Paquet Adaza, the Administrator for the Divine Mercy Project there.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The picture created a controversy because half of their Divine Mercy prayer group called it a fake. They thought it was a still digital picture which can easily be manipulated. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They did not know, up to this day, that the original was from an impossible to edit video tape sequence. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The miracle picture was later accepted though and was published in their book, pamphlets and brochures. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They also had it enlarged and displayed for visitors to see because the miracle picture with the bright star in the sky is where the present Divine Mercy statue stands.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In God&#8217;s Divine Mercy<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mike Dial<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>[Return to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>[<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/sa-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Brown Special Reports<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/8-StarofDavid.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1017\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1017\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/8-StarofDavid.jpg\" alt=\"8-StarofDavid\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/5-.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1018\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1018\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/5-.jpg\" alt=\"5-\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2-CrownOfThornsChurch.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1019\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2-CrownOfThornsChurch.jpg\" alt=\"2-CrownOfThornsChurch\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1800\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"mail,signs\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1459633544\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Divine Mercy picture sparks grace\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mail: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Picture of a devotee touching an image of the Divine Mercy inside the Church of the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148,61],"tags":[145,147,146,496,621,568],"class_list":{"0":"post-1006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mail","8":"category-signs","9":"tag-church-of-the-divine-mercy","10":"tag-divine-mercy-statue","11":"tag-el-salvador-city","12":"tag-mail","13":"tag-mail-archives","14":"tag-mailbag","15":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}