Rejoice with the whole Church today in celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday.
“Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.”
Join Archbishop Sample for a Holy Hour of Prayer and a chance to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy today from 2:30 – 3:30pm.
Also, you will surely find encouragement in this Divine Mercy Sunday Reflection with Fr. Michael Gaitly.
From Pope Francis’ Homily today:
Dear brothers and sisters, in the time of trial that we are presently undergoing, we too, like Thomas, with our fears and our doubts, have experienced our frailty. We need the Lord, who sees beyond that frailty an irrepressible beauty. With him we rediscover how precious we are even in our vulnerability. We discover that we are like beautiful crystals, fragile and at the same time precious. And if, like crystal, we are transparent before him, his light – the light of mercy – will shine in us and through us in the world. As the Letter of Peter said, this is a reason for being “filled with joy, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials” (1 Pt 1,6).
