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I’d like to tell you about an amazing outreach that was started by a friend of mine. It is meant to spread the Divine Mercy devotion in the public square in Chicago.

If you are in the Chicago area, you should go! Here’s the event Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/295081740562901/

Even if you’re not in Chicago, you can learn more and maybe bring something similar to your town http://thedivinemercyproject.org/

And, here are some details about last year’s event from Catholic News Agency:

Chicago, Ill., Apr 27, 2011 / 06:08 am (CNA).- One of the fastest-growing devotions in the Catholic Church is reaching the heart of downtown Chicago through the work of the Heralds of Divine Mercy. The organization is publicly displaying a large image of Christ during a nine-day campaign of 24-hour prayer and evangelism.

“The Divine Mercy Project is really about having an opportunity to witness to the culture, in environments we’re normally pushed out of,” said Michael C.X. Sullivan, a 40-year-old lawyer who developed the idea earlier this year. “It’s specifically for the conversion of Chicago, America, and the world.”

The prayer vigil is taking place in Daly Plaza, a crowded area that features a number of civil administrative buildings. There, the Heralds of Divine Mercy are displaying a large cross along with a ten-foot-tall image of Christ based on the visions of St. Faustina Kowalska. While some participants remain in prayer, others take their turn distributing cards that promote the message of God’s mercy.

Sullivan said his five-year-old son had become an enthusiastic evangelist, along with the many other participants who have manned the image in shifts all day and night. “He shoots out across Daly Plaza,” Sullivan said, “running right up to people and giving them the card.”

“Most people receive it, and look at it, and you see their countenance shift — there’s a kind of a brightening. However, you also see a real darkness in some people, a hardness in them. So we say a prayer for them, if they don’t want to receive this gift.”