2nd Sunday of Easter
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
Scripture:
1st Reading: Acts 5:12-16
2nd Reading: Rev 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19
Gospel: John 20:19-31
There was a preacher who didn’t know when to stop preaching. A man came up to him after the service and said, “Your sermon this morning sounded to me like the peace and mercy of God.” Pleased to hear this, the preacher made the mistake of asking the man what he meant exactly. “Well”, the man said, “it was like the peace of God because it was beyond all understanding, and it was like the mercy of God because I thought it would endure forever”.
On this Second Sunday of Easter we celebrate the truth that God’s mercy is everlasting, and our celebration of that mercy is itself a perpetual gift to the Church of our late Holy Father, Blessed Pope John Paul II, who declared this Sunday as Divine Mercy Sunday.
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