This past Sunday was Divine Mercy
Sunday. This Feast was first alluded too
in the revelations Jesus gave to the wonderful Polish Saint, Faustina
Kowalska in the early 1900’s.
Amazingly, she was barely literate, died at age 33 (same age as Jesus),
and yet wrote a 700+ page testament about what Jesus revealed to her.
Pope John Paul II would later
establish the 1st Sunday after Easter as “Divine Mercy Sunday”
calling on the faithful to pray and intercede for the world, that the mercy of
God may be unleashed and experienced by all.
There will be the opportunity for prayer, adoration, confession and
presentations beginning at 1PM today and leading to a formal program at
3:00PM.
Let me offer a quote from St.
Faustina herself as Jesus spoke to her:
“My daughter, tell the whole world
about My Inconceivable mercy. I desire
that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and a shelter for all souls, and especially
for poor sinners. On that day the very
depths of My tender mercy are open. I
pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My
mercy.”
It’s been said that the church is
“not a sanctuary for saints, but a refuge for sinners.” Our Churches are filled with individuals
(sinners—which is all of us) who have recognized our own failings and then
encountered the inexhaustible mercy of God.
These souls are well on their way to becoming saints, and often are the
best at bringing others to that same “fount of mercy.”
St. Faustina’s Chaplet of Divine Mercy is
prayed every Friday at 3:00PM in the Chapel for the mercy of God to reign upon
us and the world we live in. We pray that all may know the mercy, healing
and love of God.
“For the sake of his sorrowful
passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.”
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