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The History of Divine Mercy Sunday
Divine Mercy Sunday
is celebrated on the Octave of Easter (Sunday after Easter). Jesus Christ revealed Himself as the Divine Mercy
to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska during apparitions between 1931 - 1938.
Pope John Paul II extended to the entire Catholic Church the celebration of the this feast on April 30, 2000, the same day that he canonized Saint Faustina.
Christ’s Divine Mercy is the love that He has for mankind,
despite our sins that separate us from Him.
The Octave
, or eighth day, of Easter has always been considered special
by Christians because of Christ's appearance to Saint Thomas.
After His Resurrection, Jesus revealed Himself to His disciples,
but Saint Thomas wasn’t with them.
St. Thomas declared that he would never believe that Christ had risen from the dead until he could see Him in the flesh and probe Christ’s wounds with his own hands. This earned him the name
"Doubting Thomas.”
Eight days after the Resurrection
, Christ appeared once again to His disciples, and this time Thomas was there.
His doubt vanished, and
he professed His belief in Christ.
Nineteen centuries later, in the 1930's, Christ appeared to a Polish nun,
Sr. Maria Faustina Kowalska,
in a series of visions that took place over almost eight years.
Among those visions, Christ revealed the
Divine Mercy Novena
,
which He asked Sister Faustina to pray for nine days, beginning on Good Friday. The novena thus ends on the Saturday after Easter—the eve of the Octave of Easter-and the the
Feast of Divine Mercy
—
Divine Mercy Sunday
—was born
.
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THE MIRACLE PRAYER
Say this prayer faithfully, no matter how you feel.
When you come to the point where you sincerely mean each word
with all of your heart,
Jesus will change your whole life in a very special way. You will see.
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