Jesus is alive! Alleluia!
For we Catholics, Easter is not a one-day event but a 50-day season of celebration! Death has been defeated by the God who went down into the muck of sin and despair and arose victoriously!
The Church asks us to celebrate "Divine Mercy Sunday" on this 2nd weekend of the Easter Season. Mercy comes from the Latin misericordia, "to suffer with another." A polish saint of the 20th century, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, received visions of Christ and was encouraged to write about the divine mercy of God, who desires that all souls return to him.
Check out the video message below:
Divine Mercy
How is God trying to show me mercy?
Am I refusing or receiving his love?
Who in my life is suffering?
How can I be with them in this pain?
“'Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with mercy.'”
-from the Diary of St. Faustina
