Divine Mercy Sunday

27th April 2025

In May 2000 John Paul II established the feast of the Divine Mercy on the Second Sunday of Easter. Devotion to the Divine Mercy constitutes an authentic spiritual movement within the Catholic Church, promoted by St. Faustina, who was canonized in 2000. Sr. Faustina Kowalska died in Krakow on Oct. 5, 1938. While living her hidden, humble life, she began to be favored with mystical experiences: visions, revelations and the stigmata. At the suggestion of her spiritual director, she began to write about these experiences in her diary in 1934. Sister Faustina Kowalska’s life centered on the proclamation of Divine Mercy to every human being. Her spiritual legacy to the Church is devotion to the Divine Mercy, inspired by a vision in which Jesus himself asked that a portrait be painted with the inscription “Jesus I trust in you.” On this feast day we can receive a plenary indulgence, remission of temporal punishment, and forgiveness for all our sins by:
1. Confession – within the week;
2. Holy Communion – on the day;
3. Venerate the image of Divine Mercy;
4. Creed and Our Father for the Pope.
ABC of Mercy:
A = Ask for mercy – honour the image;
B = Be merciful to others;
C = Complete trust in God’s mercy.