{"id":14219,"date":"2021-02-05T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14219"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:31:42","slug":"divine-mercy-sunday-4","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/pt-pt\/event\/divine-mercy-sunday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3897 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/app\/uploads\/2016\/03\/divinemercyimage3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"232\" \/>The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments decreed on May 23, 2000 that \u201cthroughout the world, the Second Sunday of Easter will receive the name Divine Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation to the Christian world to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that humankind will experience in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The devotion to Jesus as \u201cthe Divine Mercy\u201d reflects the writings of St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received about God\u2019s mercy. Even before her death in 1938, devotion to the Divine Mercy had begun to spread.<\/p>\n<p>According to St. Faustina&#8217;s diary, she was told in a vision to paint an image of Christ&#8217;s divine mercy, and to encourage veneration of that image. She was not an artist, however,\u00a0but\u00a0with the help of her spiritual director arranged for a local artist to work with her on the painting. In that image of the Divine Mercy as well as in others that followed, Christ is depicted standing, with his right hand raised in a gesture of blessing. His left hand is on his chest over his heart, and rays of red and white light flow out toward the viewer. The image has been described as &#8220;not one of Christ in judgment but as a bringer of healing, forgiveness, and mercy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saint John Paul II beatified Sister Faustina, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, in Rome in 1993, and canonized her on April 30, 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter, as the first saint of the Jubilee Year. During his homily at the canonization, the Pope declared that the second Sunday of Easter would from then on be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday throughout the universal Church.<\/p>\n<p>A number of parishes in the Diocese of Fall River offer devotions on Divine Mercy Sunday. Please contact your parish or one of interest for information.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Divine Mercy devotion, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedivinemercy.org\/shrine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Shrine of the Divine Mercy website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments decreed on May 23, 2000 that \u201cthroughout the world, the Second Sunday of Easter will receive the name &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crosspost_to_16":false,"_crosspost_to_17":false,"_crosspost_to_18":false,"_crosspost_to_19":false,"_crosspost_to_20":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-14219","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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