The feast of Divine Mercy of Jesus was celebrated with great fervor devotion on Sunday, 11th April, 2010 with the feast Mass celebrated by our Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Dinesh Mendonca.
The feast preceded with nine day novena, with the recitation of the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy, which started on Good Friday, 2nd April, 2010.
This devotion originated through the revelation of Jesus to an illiterate Polish nun, Sr. Faustina, who lived a very pious and simple life. During her short period of life Jesus appeared to her for 13 years and all her encounters with Jesus are recorded in her diary. Jesus called her the Secretary and Apostle of Divine Mercy.
This devotion was dictated by Jesus Christ himself to Sr. Faustina, because he desires everyone to recourse to his infinite mercy and receive the graces attached to it when Jesus told her: “The souls that will recite this chaplet and venerate my image will not perish. At the time of death, I will stand between my father and the dying person not as a just judge but as a merciful savior.”
The Feast of the Divine Mercy
first started on the Good Friday of the year 1937, when Jesus asked Sr. Faustina to make this novena from Good Friday until the following Saturday. “I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the font of my mercy that they may draw there from strength and refreshment and whatever graces they need in the hardships of life and, especially at the hour of death. On each day you will immerse them in this ocean of my mercy, and I will bring all these souls into the house of my Father”.
On 30th April, 2000, during the canonization of Sr. Faustina, our late Pope John Paul II declared that the 2nd Sunday after Easter from now on throughout the church will be called Divine Mercy Sunday, because he was sure it would bring in a renovation in the lives of the people of God.
Accordingly along with the church throughout the world, we celebrated the Feast of Mercy, Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ with church full to capacity which was followed by half-hour adoration.
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