Divine Mercy Sunday

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Divine Mercy Sunday

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The first Sunday after Easter

• Our Lord's Mercy grants forgiveness of all sins
  and punishment on Feast of Divine Mercy, Mercy
  Sunday, mercy for even the most hardened sinners!

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• It was Jesus, Himself who asked for it to be
  celebrated on this particular Sunday following
  Easter.

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Jesus left all the details in a diary that He
commanded Saint Faustina to write in the 1930s.
(Divine Mercy In My Soul)

• When did Jesus make this promise and how does
  one get it? 

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• Our Lord strongly speaks about this to
  SaintFaustina
• I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to
  arise out oflove for me. You are to show mercy
  to your neighbors alwaysand everywhere. You must
  not shrink from this or try toexcuse yourself
  from it. Diary, 742).

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• During the course of Jesus' revelations to
  Saint Faustina on the Divine Mercy He asked on
  numerous occasions that a feast day be dedicated
  to the Divine Mercy and that this feast be
  celebrated on the Sunday after Easter.

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• I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge
  and shelter for all souls, and especially for
  poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My
  tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean
  of graces upon those souls who approach the fount
  of My mercy.
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• The soul that will go to Confession and receive
  Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness
  of sins and punishment.
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• On that day all the divine floodgates through
  which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to
  draw near to Me, even though its sins be as
  scarlet. (Diary, 699)

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• This Feast, which had already been granted to the
  nation of Poland and been celebrated within
  Vatican City, was granted to the Universal Church
  by Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the
  canonization of St. Faustina on 30 April 2000.

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• In a decree dated 23 May 2000,the
  Congregation for Divine Worship and the
  Discipline of the Sacraments stated that
  "throughout the world the Second Sunday of Easter
  will receive the name Divine Mercy Sunday, a
  perennial invitation to the Christian world to
  face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the
  difficulties and trials that mankind will
  experience in the years to come.

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• These papal acts represent the highest
  endorsement that the Church can give to a private
  revelation, an act of  papal infallibility
  proclaiming the certain sanctity of the mystic,
  and the granting of a universal feast, as
  requested by Our Lord to St. Faustina.

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Divine Mercy Novena

• Jesus further asked that this Feast of the
  Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena of Chaplets
  to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good
  Friday. 
• Say one chaplet each day following the novena
  intention.

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• The Hour of Great Mercy
• Jesus asked Saint Faustina, and through her us,
  to celebrate this Hour of Great Mercy, promising
  tremendous graces to those who would, both for
  themselves and on behalf of others.

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• At three o'clock, implore My mercy, especially
  for sinners and, if only for a brief moment,
  immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in
  My abandonment at the moment of agony. This is
  the hour of great mercy ... In this hour I will
  refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request
  of Me in virtue of My Passion. (Diary, 1320).

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• Jesus commissioned St. Faustina to have a
  special image painted. He wanted the world to
  know His mercy through this image.
• "In the evening, when I was in my cell, I saw the
  Lord Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand
  was raised in the gesture of blessing, the
  other was touching the garment at the breast.
  From beneath the garment, slightly drawn aside at
  the breast, there were emanating two large rays,
  one red, the other pale. In silence I kept my
  gaze fixed on the Lord my soul was struck with
  awe, but also with great joy. After a while,
  Jesus said to me,

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• Paint an image according to the pattern
  you see with the signature Jesus, I trust in
  you. I desire that this image be venerated, first
  in your chapel, and then throughout the
  world.(Diary, 47)
• "I am offering people a vessel with which they
  are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of
  mercy. That vessel is this image with the
  signature 'Jesus, I trust in You" (Diary,327)

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• In the beginning of 1934, in Vilnius, Father
  Sopocko, who was the principal spiritual director
  and confessor of St. Faustina, entrusted painting
  of the image of Merciful Jesus to artist painter
  Eugeniusz Kazimirowski who resided in the same
  building. Since then, sister Faustina visited the
  painters studio to give some instructions and
  tell the artist about details of the image.

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• Father Sopocko did his best to make the image
  painted precisely following her instructions. He
  adjusted the canvas on which he asked the image
  of Merciful Jesus to be painted, to the size of
  the old frame donated earlier by one of
  parishioners. When the painting was ready to be
  displayed (June 1934) (see Memories), he
  requested sister Faustina to ask Lord Jesus about
  how to inscribe it.

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• The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale
  ray stands for the Water which makes souls
  righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which
  is the life of souls. These two rays issued forth
  from the depths of My tender mercy when My
  agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the
  Cross. (Diary, 299)

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• I promise that the soul that will venerate this
  image will not perish. I also promise victory
  over its enemies already here on earth,
  especially at the hour of death. I Myself will
  defend it as My own glory.
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• Holy God,
• Holy Mighty One,
• Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the
  whole world.

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• Useful links
• http//www.divinemercysunday.com/
• http//www.divinemercysunday.com/chaplet.htm
• http//www.divinemercysunday.com/novena.htm
• http//www.ainglkiss.com/mc/mn.htm
• http//www.faustina-message.com/informacje_ang.htm
  
• http//our.homewithgod.com/divinemercy/
• http//www.faustina.org/pages/xfeast.htm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Mercy_(paintin
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