history. the mercy of god shown by those five wounds was more powerful and more powerful, too, was the closeness of mary our mother. these two men who looked upon president wounds of christ and bore witness to his mercy, they built a living home and an describable glorious joy. it s the hope and joy that nothing and no one can take from them. the hope and joy of easter forged in the crucible of self-denial, self-emptying and identification with sinners, even to the point of disgust at