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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3:00 PMDIVINE MERCY FOR OUR TIMES
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
Please join us for the Chanting of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy at the Holy Hour of 3:00 p.m. that afternoon in the church.Jesus is CALLING you and me to trust and to heal, to be renewed and made whole.
The Divine Mercy image is the image of the risen Christ on that first Easter on the evening of the Resurrection, miraculously appearing there in the Upper Room and bestowing on the Apostles the power of the Holy Spirit to forgive sins. His hand is raised in blessing, he shows them His wounds, and Jesus is looking for their trust. He breathes on them and says “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, what sins you retain our retained”. (Gospel of John, 20:23)Recall that St. Thomas, the doubter, was not there on that first Easter Sunday, but was actually there on that “Second Sunday of Easter”, the very first Divine Mercy Sunday. That entire scenario was intended to get humanity to trust in Jesus without seeing. Now we can see why Jesus insisted that the Divine Mercy image, with the words “Jesus, I trust in You” be in view and venerated in our churches on that day. (Robert Allard, DivineMercySunday.com)