Over the years – and there have been quite a few of those – I have watched with interest as various religious devotions and spiritual practices came to the fore in Catholic circles; some of those practices and devotions remained there, while others seemed to vanish again. Some proved to be rather popular, others less so. One or two gained much greater prominence and earned themselves a permanent place in the life of the Church – the Divine Mercy devotion being a worthy and excellent example of this. I have to confess that sometimes, people would mention their latest spiritual discovery and I wouldn’t have the first idea what they…