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St. Paul’s Roman and Mary Kulzer
Faithfully Sharing the Message of Divine Mercy
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f you consider 40 years of doing something once per day — that’s 14,600 times! Roman and Mary Kulzer have faithfully prayed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy at least once a day since St. Paul’s was dedicated to Divine Mercy on April 18, 1982. That’s 40 years of commitment and likely well over 20,000 chaplets prayed by Roman and Mary, as many days they pray it more than once. Since the onset of the pandemic, they’ve prayed at least three chaplets per day. “Our Lord made some amazing promises to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska — one being that those who recite it will receive great mercy at their hour of death,” Roman says. It was the promises that the Lord made to St. Faustina that initially drew Roman to learn more. In 1980, St. Paul’s hosted a speaker, Fr. Ohman, who shared the Divine Mercy devotion and message. The Divine Mercy message was received from our Lord by St. Faustina, a Polish nun. When Roman first heard the Divine Mercy message, he met with Vernon Botz, Paul Thiesen, and Lawrence Kaas — they decided they should get a Divine Mercy group started. All these years later, the group is 23 members strong. They still meet once per month, starting their meetings with Mass and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Mark Haskamp is the president,
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