Given that this past weekend was Divine Mercy weekend, I spent a lot of time watching the “Divine Mercy Plus” streaming service. I’ve had it on my phone and laptop for a while, but haven’t really explored its content until I installed it on my Amazon TV FireStick.
Oh, my! If you are a Catholic interested in developing your spirituality further, enjoy programming that’s quite well-done, and love Divine Mercy, then this service is for you! It complements EWTN (much of their programming also is – or was- available on EWTN.)
There are four programs that I watched a lot of over the weekend and yesterday:
“100 years of Fatima” Came out in 2017 during the centenary of the Apparitions. Despite that, it isn’t ‘dated,’ if you want a great review of the Fatima Message, then this will provide that. Each of the 22 episodes is only a few minutes long (it will take about an hour to go through them all in one sitting.)
“Discovering the Diary” I have only watched a few of these; each episode is also only a few minutes long and it takes a topic from a selected Diary paragraph. This show is a MUST WATCH for Sober Catholics. There are quite a few topics of interest to anyone in recovery. Marc Massery, the host, is engaging and entertianing as he handles topics like struggling to pray, reparation, fear and worry, overcoming sin… all topics that anyone struggles with, especially if you are coming from alcohoilismm and addictions. (I don’t think he has covered addiction specifically.)
“France: A Pilgrimmage with Mary” Fr. Joe Roesch takes you on a pligrimage through France by visiting the sites of various Marian apparitions and shrines. I also highly recommend this: by covering the Miraculous Medal and Lourdes apparitions, you get a very good review of those and how to apply them to your growing Catholic faith. Even if you are familiar with these, they are helpful just in seeing the sites. Each episode is also just a few minutes long and if you sit through them all, it might take 90 minutes? I also learned of an apparition I never heard of before: Our Lady of Sunday. (You can watch Have You Ever Heard of Our Lady of Sunday? and What did Our Lady of Sunday Have to Say? This will be a blogpost topic, but wacth them anyway.)
“Ask a Marian” is a great program on a wide variety of topics on Catholicism.
Take a look at this list of all of their Series and Playlists.
The following list of links takes you to where you can find the service:
DivineMercyPlus on the Mac App Store
DivineMercyPlus on the iPhone/iPad App Store
DivineMercyPlus on GooglePlay for Android
DivineMercyPlus is also available on AmazonFireTV, and probably on other streaming devices. Just search on your TV thingy for “Divine Mercy Plus.”
Most of the programming is free, there is a small amount of premium shows.
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