Though I have been doing pretty well with not worrying too much about Michael's surgery tomorrow. I find that more worry creeps in as the day gets closer. I was starting to feel quite a bit of worry when
my Family and I decided to go to mass last night instead of this morning .With Mike working six days a week and not even taking extra days off for Easter we really wanted a day that we would not have to be a slave to the alarm clock. Being in the frame of mind that I have been in ,I didn't realize that This weekend was Divine Mercy Sunday. I have always loved the above picture of the Divine Mercy every since Uncle Bob gave my brother Jim a huge framed copy when he stood for him for Confirmation .I believe I was about twelve at the time The picture was placed above my parents fire place where it has remained all these years. Even though Jim married and moved out almost eighteen years ago he felt that this picture should stay.
As We walked into church I dropped a prayer request for Michael into the box and went to our pew to pray. As mass started and I could feel a sense of peace come over me. When Father announced that it was Divine Mercy Sunday I understood . Father also announced that though it had not been in the bulletin nor had he remembered to announce it, there would be anointing of the sick after the reading of the gospel . Wow , I thought Michael could sure use anointing about now .Tears filled my eyes as Father anointed my precious Michael and I knew that God would take care of him through not only this surgery but his recovery and the next surgery and recovery too.
Isn't it amazing how God sets these things up? He surely had a hand in scheduling Michael's surgery on the sixteenth so that he could be anointed the day before which he knew would comfort me. God knew that I would probably not think to ask Father to anoint Michael privately so he worked everything out.
Come to think of it, I don't even know if anointing of the sick is done at all parishes on Divine Mercy Sunday.
