Feast of Divine Mercy

Divine Mercy Sunday, being celebrated tomorrow, is a very special Sunday when the Divine floodgates from Heaven are wide-opened and Jesus offers us the total forgiveness of all sins and punishment to any soul, who goes to Confession and receives Him in Holy Communion. Divine Mercy Sunday really began with a young Polish teenager, Helena Kowalska, who had felt the call to religious life and tried to enter a number of convents. Finally, she was accepted by the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy whose members devote themselves to the care and education of troubled young women. Entering the convent when she was almost 20, Faustina made her profession as a nun at age 21, in 1926. During the early 1930s, Faustina received a number of appearances and visions of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother. During her early visitations from Jesus, he revealed to her that her purpose on earth was to bring about a devotion to His Divine Mercy; she was to be an apostle and secretary of God's mercy. She was to demonstrate mercy and call attention to His purposes of mercy for the world. Much of what we know about St Faustina and Divine Mercy are found in the pages of her diary. On February...

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