God was preparing Lucia before the visions took place. Father Joe notes that Lucia's mother urged her to ask God to make her a saint, and Lucia made a self-offering.

Initially, St. Bernadette's pastor didn't believe that she was seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary appear to her; no doubt it would be a difficult thing to believe!Father Joe talks in front of the parish church where St. Bernadette was baptized and received her First Holy Communion. 

Follow Jesus in His Passion!Compiled by St. Faustina's religious community in Poland, St. Faustina's Way of the Cross combines the scriptural Stations of the Cross with passages on the Passion from the Diary of St. Faustina.Led by Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, The Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception invite you to enter into the mystery of Christ's Passion through St. Faustina's Way of the Cross at the epic bronze Stations located at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.