Divine Mercy Sunday

THE Feast of the Divine Mercy is a timely celebration for the second Sunday of Easter. The gates of heaven are open. A call issues forth, “I have conquered death, come to my mercy.” The time has come to have courage and embrace this divine opportunity to have eternal life.

Catholics are very familiar of the divine attribute of God which is justice.

God is just. We need to practice justice as one of the cardinal virtues in order to attain a certain degree of norm in our everyday dealings. However, with all the shortcomings and defects we have, in the end, we can only have recourse to God’s mercy. If a student is asked whether to grade his work with justice or mercy, surely, the preference is mercy.

Our Church has punctuated our earthly life from beginning until the end with Sacraments which express God’s enduring mercy, a clear statement with action of His faithfulness to His covenant with us.

In the Mass, the Lord offers Himself as a holocaust out of His mercy and love for us. Similarly, a remedy to our sinfulness is the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The Lord desires to release us from the burden of sin. He awaits us. It only remains whether we correspond to His will like His mother and all the saints, or go our own ways which lead to death. His call remains, “Come to my Mercy.”