Divine Mercy in the light of Easter

Divine Mercy in the light of Easter

Photo: Catholic News Service The light of Easter reveals the mercy of God not as a distant promise to come but a gift offered to us even now, breaking into our lives through the Risen Christ. This has been a principal way in which Divine Mercy Sunday, celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, has struck many devotees ever since its establishment.    With origins in the visions of St Faustina Kowalska—a Polish mystic of the Congregation of Sis…

Through revelations he had with Saint Faustina Kowalska, Jesus made a series of extraordinary promises, which were embodied and expressed in the Diary that the great mystic and apostle of the Divine Mercy wrote. After the revelations, and by indications of his confessor, Father Miguel Sopocko, in 1933 Sister Faustina wrote in six notebooks, with a simple language, everything that the Son of God told him in these spiritual encounters. Although Sa…