For the 6th consecutive year, the Basilica will host a city-wide celebration for Divine Mercy Sunday, April 28. The Basilica doors will open at 12:45 p.m. Recitation of the Divine Mercy chaplet, confessions & Eucharistic adoration begin at 1 p.m. Priest confessors will be available until 3 p.m. Father Nicholas Schumm will be the Mercy preacher this year beginning at 2 p.m. Sung chaplet begins at 3 p.m. concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.