St. Mary's Parish Community

April 27, 2014 St. Mary’s Church, Lindsay 2:30 – 3:30 pm

In the 1930’s Our Lord Jesus, requested through St. Faustina, a Polish religious sister, that a special Feast of Divine Mercy be established in His Church and solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter every year.

In the year 2000, Blessed Pope John Paul II designated the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday!

Jesus Himself made the promise for a complete forgiveness of all sins and punishment on that day, even to the most terrible sinner imaginable. God in His great mercy is giving mankind a last chance for salvation.

When did Jesus make this promise and how does one get it? Jesus left all the details in a diary that He commanded Saint Faustina to write. It was her job to record everything that Jesus wanted mankind to know about His mercy before He returns to judge the world.

These words of Jesus, are recorded in the diary of St. Faustina "I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment."

"Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion. I am giving them the last hope of salvation; that is, the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore My mercy, they will perish for all eternity … tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near."

To get this great promise one has to go to Confession and then receive Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday. Jesus said, "Whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment." To receive Communion worthily one should be in the state of grace and without serious sin.

In Saint Faustina’s diary, she recorded that Jesus told her, "When you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I Myself act in your soul. Tell souls that if their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity."

"Come with faith to the feet of My representative… and make your confession before Me. The person of the priest is, for Me, only a screen. Never analyze what sort of a priest that I am making use of; open your soul in confession as you would to Me, and I will fill it with My light."

Divine Mercy image
In 1931, Our Lord appeared to St. Faustina. He was clothed in a white garment with His right hand raised in blessing. His left hand was touching His garment in the area of the heart, from where two large rays came forth, one red and the other pale. Jesus said to her:
"Paint an image according to the pattern you see with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You … 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")…….."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’"

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