Divine Mercy Sunday is April 23. Divine Mercy Sunday: Learn why the second Sunday of Easter is celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday and pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
“On this Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, we remember the dedication of this day by Saint John Paul II in honor of St. Faustina’s vision of Christ in which the Lord’s heart radiated forth with divine mercy for the world. But what does mercy mean? It designates the suffering of the heart, a type of compassion, a deep, loving identification with people in their suffering. It is the characteristic of God, for God is love. Nothing in the world would exist if it were not, at every moment, loved into being by God— a great act of tender mercy. How is this love made manifest in us? Precisely through following God’s commands and through forgiveness.”
~Bishop Robert Barron