Divine Mercy Sunday

My dear friends in Christ,

Today we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. This is the Second Sunday of Easter. Sister Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun, was God’s instrument to proclaim God’s mercy toward every human being. Sister Faustina was inspired by a vision in which Jesus told her that a painting should be made of His image with the invocation, “Jesus I trust in You.” She commissioned the painting in 1935. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, then Archbishop of Krakow (later Pope John Paul II), began Sister Faustina’s process of beatification. At her canonization in 2000, John Paul II designated the Second Sunday of Easter to be Divine Mercy Sunday. The Pope’s final days coincided with the Church’s preparation to celebrate the feast he described as flowing from Christ’s “most profound mercy,” and which he himself established. The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is a beautiful prayer said by many as a Rosary based prayer using Rosary Beads. It is also a good practice when we are feeling down and things are not going according to plan, that we just pause and simply pray saying, “Jesus I trust in You.”

Thank you to all the ministers who helped out during the Easter Triduum and on Easter Sunday. I am grateful.

Today is the day that many of you have been waiting for! We will have our drawing of the Super 50/50 after the 9:00 AM Mass. The returns have been steady and I cannot thank you enough! I am most humbled by your generosity during this time of pandemic. We haven’t had many gatherings or fundraisers over the last year so this comes at a time when our Church benefits from your stewardship.

May God bless you all,

Father John