The Church and the world recently mourned the passing of Pope Francis, who was such a blessing for the Church, who gave us a concrete example of living out Jesus’ call to love one another and to have special care for those on the margins of society.
He lived his life as a reflection of divine mercy and urged us to be people of mercy in what can sometimes be a merciless world. That’s the challenge of living the gospel–to make the values and priorities of Jesus our own values and priorities.
Pope John Paul II designated the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday after the devotion of Sr. Faustina, who said, “The pattern of Christian perfection is based on trust in God and on the attitude of mercy toward one’s neighbors.”
The call to mercy is a call to experience the community that we see present in the early Church and that we are called to by the power of the Holy Spirit given to us through Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist.
“Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles.” (Acts 5:12)
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