
Pope Francis on Divine Mercy Sunday: The ‘Fullness of Life’ Is ‘Realized in Jesus’
Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted by Pope St. John Paul II during the Great Jubilee year of 2000, is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter.
Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted by Pope St. John Paul II during the Great Jubilee year of 2000, is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter.
User’s Guide to the Second Sunday of Easter/Divine Mercy Sunday
COMMENTARY: Hell exists not despite God’s love but precisely because of it.
This weekend the Universal Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul II dedicated the Second Sunday of Easter to ‘The Feast of Mercy’ in 2000 at the canonization of the Polish religious sister St. Faustina Kowalska and since then devotion has grown tremendously. Today on Register Radio, Register writers Matt McDonald and Lauretta Brown talk about the growth of the Divine Mercy devotion as well as some ways to partake in this feast day’s greatest offerings.
‘Lord, who with your death and resurrection revealed the Father’s love, we believe in you and with trust we repeat today: Jesus, I trust in you, have mercy on us and on the entire world,’ he wrote.
‘Jesus, I trust in you.’
Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to ask themselves if in the name of Jesus’ wounds, they are willing to open their arms to others, especially the wounded, so that no one is excluded from God’s mercy.
SCRIPTURES & ART: Today’s Gospel is illustrated by Renaissance painter Paolo Moranda Cavazzola
John Paul II made teaching and spreading Divine Mercy a keystone of his pontificate.
St. Faustina recorded the words of Jesus encouraging us to spread the message and image of Divine Mercy to others.
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