Divine Mercy Sunday is the first Sunday after Easter, and it celebrates the unfathomable mercy of Jesus Christ, a D.C.-based religious sister told Fox News Digital.
For the faithful worldwide, the gifts of Easter continue after the official remembrance of Jesus' resurrection. For Catholics around the world, Sunday, April 7, 2024, is known as Divine Mercy Sunday. In the Gospel of John, Jesus prepares those on Earth to carry out his holy mission: 'Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.
In 2016, Farbaniec moved to Washington, D.C., to join the staff of the St. John Paul II National Shrine, says the shrine's website. The first Sunday after Easter, known in the Catholic Church as the Second Sunday of Easter, has been known as Divine Mercy Sunday in the Catholic Church since April 30, 2000. St. John Paul II instituted the Sunday of Divine Mercy on that day when he canonized St.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus was demonstrating mercy following His resurrection and appeared to the apostles, 'showing them His wounds, to them twice, ‘Peace be with you,’' said Farbaniec. 'This is the moment when He establishes the Sacrament of Reconciliation,' she also said. 'The first gift of our risen Lord is peace as a fruit of His forgiveness and reconciliation,' she said.
Thus, Jesus gives us this special feast,' she said. 'From the cross, Jesus offers each of us His forgiveness, received again in confession and absolution.' The Catholic Church regards Easter as an octave, or eight-day celebration, concluding on Divine Mercy Sunday, said Farbaniec. 'The Lord urges us to enter into communion with Him, to become united to Him by receiving His body and blood,' she said.
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