In the long history of the Church; Divine Mercy Sunday is rather new. It revolves around the miraculous visions received by a Polish nun Sister Faustina during the 1930s. The messages revolved around Jesus' everlasting mercy. This is an important message in our modern world where some feel that their sins are too serious or out of control to either be stopped or forgiven. Jesus forgives all who truly repent and want to change their lives and help others.
Nearly one century ago, the British philosopher and Catholic thinker GK Chesterton stated that most who get caught up in pornography and sexual vice were lost souls looking for God but somehow in their loneliness took a terrible wrong turn and ended ip in a horrible place. Divine Mercy Sunday is especially relevant for these lost souls. If Chesterton noticed this sad fact one hundred years ago, one can only imagine how many more people are in need of help today.
St Jerome tells us that the only surviving Apostle Saint John, who lived to the ripe old age of one hundred, would often be carried by the faithful to various Early Church gatherings after his extended exile on the isle of Patmos. When the participants would run into perplexing disagrement, the suthor of the last Gospel and Book of Revelation would perk up and say,"Little children love one another." In miraculous fashion, agreement on those perplexing issues were resolved; something to think about this Divine Mercy Sunday.
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