On Divine Mercy Sunday of 2016, I was in prayer in the small chapel in Williams, AZ, very early in the morning, quietly preparing for Divine Mercy Sunday Masses.

It is such a special day in the Easter season. I wished to give the people something special. Praying at the tabernacle, I asked Jesus: “Could You help me out a little here, Lord? I’d like to have something different to tell the people today, Divine Mercy Sunday. Please, Lord, could you let a thought, a word, a scrap fall from your table for me to meditate on?” I immediately heard an inner voice say to me:

“Just Read The Words....”

I picked up the readings and read today’s account of that first Divine Mercy Sunday: As I read the words: “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side...” and I gasped. It was just as if I had never, ever read these words before.

“Bring your hand and put it INTO my side.”

This is a quite startling and astounding line. He was telling Thomas to put his whole hand and wrist into the wound in His side made by the lance. The inner voice spoke again: “I was telling Thomas: ‘I want you to touch my Heart.....’” Jesus’ Pierced, Sacred Heart.

We are called to touch Jesus’ Heart by the way we live our faith.

Divine Mercy Sunday Special Devotions Begin at 3PM in the Church.

The beautiful Chaplet of Divine Mercy awakens our understanding that we can unite ourselves in the offering of Jesus to the Father, in union with the action of the Priest during the celebration of the Holy Mass:

“Eternal Father I offer You the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.”

We have been redeemed by Blood of Jesus, the Son of God, Who is the spotless Innocent Lamb, now Risen as He said.

During this great Feast of the Divine Mercy, ask for the grace to receive and share God’s Mercy for someone you know. Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet in its simplicity, helps us to place ourselves in God’s loving and merciful embrace. In St. Maria Faustina Kowalska’s Diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Jesus revealed to her in privately:

“Write this for the benefit of souls; when a soul sees and realizes the gravity of its sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother.

“These souls have a right of priority to My compassionate Heart, they have first access to My mercy.” (Diary,1541)

Commit yourself to be one to touch His Heart. “Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed” — in His merciful love.

A Special Easter Thank You To all our great Parish Staff and Volunteers.

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