This is Divine Mercy week, which will culminate on Sunday. For thousands of years, Eastern Christians have recognized that the week following the death of our Lord was a time when God poured out His forgiveness on the repentant. If we look at the earliest liturgical document in existence credited to the Apostles (The Apostolic Constitutions), Book 5, Chapter 19, we find the apostle St. Thomas strongly urging "after eight days [following the Feast of Easter] let there another feast observed with honor, the eighth day itself on which He [Jesus] gave me Thomas, who was hard of belief, full assurance, by showing me the print of the nails, and the wound made in His side by the spear."
That message was brought to the West by St. Faustina. Please pray the Divine Mercy Novena, for Terri and this country. Plan to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday with your family.
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