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Why a Feast of Mercy?
When St. Faustina
told the priest that Jesus wanted a Feast of Mercy, the priest
said, “Why? There’s nothing new about mercy. Mercy
is as old as creation!” Jesus told St. Faustina, “And
who knows anything about the feast? No one!
Even those who should be proclaiming My mercy and teaching
people about it often do not know about it themselves.
(Diary - Divine Mercy in My Soul,
341)
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I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for
all souls, and especially for poor sinners.”
(Diary, 699) Jesus explained why He
is offering us this Feast of Mercy:
“Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion.”
(Diary, 965) Jesus suffered and died for
us on the cross; He gave us |
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His very life and we still choose death through sin! And so
He is reaching out to us again. It’s important
to understand that the Feast of Divine Mercy is not greater
than Easter. Jesus is showing us the close connection
between the Mystery of our Redemption and the Mystery of His
Mercy - that this great mystery of our salvation is a feat of
God's mercy.
He
asks us to make a Novena of Chaplets to the Divine Mercy beginning
on Good Friday. Here we have the Death of Jesus, then the Resurrection
of Jesus on Easter Sunday, and then, for eight days after the
Resurrection, we celebrate the Octave of Easter, every day is
like Easter Sunday. The last day of that Octave is the Second
Sunday of Easter, which is the Feast of Divine Mercy. Jesus
wants the priests to preach about His Mercy on the first Sunday
after Easter and solemnly bless the Image of Divine Mercy displaying
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