TV Picks 04.19.2009

SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Sunday

EWTN, CatholicTV When Jesus told St. Faustina Kowalska in 1931 that he wanted the Church to establish a feast of Mercy on the Sunday after Easter as a “shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners” he said, “The soul that will go to confession and receive holy Communion will obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day are opened all the divine floodgates through which graces flow. Let no soul fear to draw near to me, even though its sins be as scarlet.” On EWTN, the Divine Mercy Preview Show at noon readies viewers for the Solemn Mass of Divine Mercy, live at 1 p.m. On CatholicTV at 2:30 and 3 p.m., shows explain the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, recite it, and present reverent music videos about Divine Mercy.


SUNDAY

Building the Future

SCIENCE CHANNEL Beginning at noon, the 60-minute episodes “The Quest for Water,” “The Search for Ultimate Energy,” “21st-Century Shelter,” and “Surviving Natural Disasters” describe experts’ latest planning.


MONDAYS, TUESDAYS

Friends of the Cross

FAMILYLAND TV At midnight Mondays and 10 a.m. Tuesdays, this series discusses our duty and our need to take up our cross and follow Jesus every day.


TUESDAY, 7 p.m.

How It’s Made

DISCOVERY CHANNEL This episode shows how bees make honey, the uses of honeycombs, and how to make fiber optics, bricks and pipe organs.


WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m.

Secrets of the Dead:

Blackbeard’s Lost Ship

PBS Experts identify a wreck in Beaufort Inlet, N.C., as the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of Blackbeard the Pirate (Edward Teach or Thach), which sank in May 1718.


THURSDAY

Warriors

HISTORY Starting at 8 a.m., five 60-minute episodes of this military history series air consecutively. Topics are the Maya battle of Dos Pilas; “Viking terror”; Germans vs. Romans, A.D. 9; the Battle of Agincourt, 1415; and samurai warriors in 1612. Beginning at 2 p.m., the episodes re-air. Advisory: TV-PG.


FRIDAY, 9:30 a.m.

It’s Me or the Dog:

Jimi and Duke

ANIMAL PLANET Celebrity trainer Victoria Stilwell helps the Brown family, whose Labrador retrievers Jimi and Duke are disobedient and like to jump up on people.


SATURDAY, 3 a.m.

In Concert: Koopman in Freiberg: Bach’s Organ Works

EWTN In the beautiful Cathedral of St. Marien in Freiburg, Germany, Tom Koopman performs the Baroque organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.