Divine Mercy Sunday
Divine Mercy SundayDivine Mercy Sunday re-echoes the central message of our Christian faith… God loves us and cares about us irrespective
of who we are, where we are and what we may have done in the past. God revealed His mercy, first and foremost, by
sending His only begotten Son to become our Saviour and Lord by His suffering, death and Resurrection. Through his death
and resurrection Divine Mercy is experienced in every sacramental celebration as they sanctify our lives and offer us unmerited opportunities to participate in the divine life of God. God through the scriptures and in the living traditions of the church stands and wait for our return and like the loving father in the Parable of the Prodigal son He will always welcome us into his warmth embrace.
Jesus through the writing of a Polish nun Maria Faustina reminds us that aching humanity would find no rest for itself until peoples embraced the mercy offered by God. God, for his part, has no desire to condemn the world. Indeed, he would much rather that sinners turn back to Him and experience true peace and freedom. He wants us to receive the fullness of His gifts. It was for this very reason that He died upon the cross. But so many people still don’t know about this or choose not to act upon it. And so, in order to make the richness of God’s mercy more widely known, Jesus asked that a special feast of Divine Mercy be established. Today is that very day.
This feast invites us into firstly a realization of our own need for mercy, secondly invoke God’s mercy upon ourselves and thirdly we are called to extend mercy to others.
Happy Divine Mercy Sunday.
Fr Pontianus Jaffla
