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Apr 19 – Homily – Fr Tito: My Misery, God’s Mercy

apostolate — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:47:59 +0000

Homily #090419t ( 11min) Play – Divine Mercy Sunday 2009

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ABCs of Divine Mercy

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:00:28 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

A — Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.

B — Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.

C — Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive.

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Apr 27 – Homily – Fr Elias: Divine Mercy and Two Papal Saints

apostolate — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 02:56:39 +0000

Homily #140427b ( 24min) Play – Fr. Elias for Divine Mercy Sunday preaches on the God’s wonderful mercy as well as the two Saints that were canonized today Pope St. John XXIII who started the Second Vatican council which spoke so much of mercy and Pope St. John Paul II who was instrumental in implementing it and especially in instituting the feast of the Divine Mercy according to the apparition of Our Lord to St. Faustina, whom he canonized.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 2:42-47
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1pe 1:3-9
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Apr 12 – Homily – Fr Dominic: Mercy of God

apostolate — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:29:39 +0000

Homily #150412 ( 06min) Play – Divine Mercy Sunday was given to us to receive and recognize, with more emphasis than ever before, God’s infinite sea of mercy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 4:32-35
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1jo 5:1-6
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Apr 12 – Homily – Fr Louis Maximilian: Pope Francis on Mercy

apostolate — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:38:21 +0000

Homily #150412n ( 14min) Play – Father Louis reads selections and then comments on Misericordia Vultus (Pope Francis’ Papal Bull of Indiction for the Jubilee Year of Mercy). Read it for yourself here.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 4:32-35
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1jo 5:1-6
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Apr 12 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: The ABC’s of Divine Mercy

apostolate — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 23:09:54 +0000

Homily #150412lss ( 14min) Play – The ABC’s of Divine Mercy: A. – Ask for Mercy; B. – Be Merciful; C. – Complete Trust in the Lord’s Mercy.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 4:32-35
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1jo 5:1-6
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Apr 12 – Homily – Fr Giles: God of Mercy and Compassion

Fra Cyprian — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:56:38 +0000

Homily #150412a ( 14min) Play – This is a reflection given by Fr. Giles M. Atherton on the readings for Divine Mercy Sunday, April 12th 2015.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 4:32-35
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1jo 5:1-6
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Apr 23 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: To Live Divine Mercy, FINCH and ABC

Griswold Friars — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:08:07 +0000

In the Gospel reading, we see two appearances of Jesus to the disciples, first without Thomas, who doubted when he was told that Jesus was risen, and then while Thomas was there, whose profession of faith strengthens our own. The readings as a whole show us that Jesus meets us where we are at, but takes us from there and invites us to share His life and mission. Divine Mercy is a theme of the Old Testament, but personalized in Jesus and is at the heart of the Gospel.
Pope Benedict XVI tells us that Divine Mercy is not secondary devotion, but integral part of belief and prayer. To help us incorporate it better into our own lives, Father gives us two ways to remember and live the message of Divine Mercy in our lives:
FINCH: Feast, Image, Novena, Chaplet, Hour:
Feast of Divine Mercy: On the Sunday after Easter the depths of mercy are opened, and those who go to confession and receive communion are promised complete forgiveness of sin and punishment due to sin, a “Clean Slate Grace.”
Image of Divine Mercy: This image is vessel of Divine Mercy through which Jesus blesses us with His mercy when we venerate it.
Novena of Divine Mercy: During this novena, we ask Him to grant every possible grace on every possible group of souls.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Say it unceasingly. Through it God promises great graces of mercy, especially at death, even a hardened sinner would receive great graces through praying this chaplet.
Hour of Mercy: This is 3pm, when Jesus surrendered up His soul on the cross. Jesus will refuse nothing to the soul who makes a request in the name of His Passion at this time. A good prayer for this time is the one starting: O blood and water….
ABC of Divine Mercy:
Ask for mercy,
Be merciful: deeds works prayers, and have
Complete confidence in God’s mercy.
Divine Mercy message is last hope of mankind, peace will only come from the heart of Jesus and peace will not come until the world turns to the Divine Mercy.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Divine Mercy Sunday – Solemnity
Readings:
1st: act 2:42-47
Resp: psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
2nd: 1pe 1:3-9
Gsp: joh 20:19-31

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Living the Mystery of Divine Mercy

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:00:10 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

Every year in celebrating Easter we relive the experience of the first disciples of Jesus, the experience of the encounter of Him risen: the Gospel of John tells that they saw Him appear in their midst in the Upper Room on the evening of the very day of the Resurrection, the first day of the week, and subsequently eight days later. That day, later called the Lord’s Day, was the day of the assembly of the Christian community which gathered for its own devotion, that is, to the Eucharist, a new form of worship which from the outset differed from the Judaic worship of the Sabbath.

Indeed the celebration of the Lord’s Day is a very strong proof of Christ’s Resurrection, for only an extraordinary and overwhelming event could have induced the first Christians to begin a form of worship that differed with regard to the Jewish Sabbath.

Then, as today, Christian worship is not only a commemoration of past events nor even a specific inner mystical experience; rather, it is essentially an encounter with the Risen Lord who lives in the dimension of God beyond time and space, and yet becomes really present amidst the community, speaks to us in the Sacred Scriptures and breaks the bread of eternal life for us.

It is through these signs that we relive what the disciples experienced, that is, the event of seeing Jesus and at the same time of not recognizing Him; of touching His body, a real body and yet free from earthly bonds. What the Gospel says is very important namely, that Jesus, in His two appearances to the Apostles gathered in the Upper Room, repeats several times the greeting: Peace be with you. Here, the traditional greeting with which people wish one another shalom, peace, becomes something new: it becomes the gift of the peace that Jesus alone can give because it is the fruit of His radical victory over evil.

The peace that Jesus gives to his friends is the fruit of the love of God which led Him to die on the cross, to pour out all His Blood, as a meek and humble lamb full of grace and truth. For this reason Blessed John Paul II chose to call this Sunday after Easter Divine Mercy, with a very specific image: that of Jesus’ pierced side from which blood and water flowed, according to the account of an eyewitness, the Apostle John. However, Jesus is now Risen and the Paschal sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist flow from Him, who is alive: those who receive them with faith receive the gift of eternal life.

Dear brothers and sisters, let us accept the gift of peace which the Risen Jesus offers us; let us allow our hearts to be filled with His mercy! In this way, with the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who raised Christ from the dead, we too can bring these Easter gifts to others. May Mary most holy obtain this for us.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Divine Mercy – Fr. Elias – Homily – La Crosse, WI – 2019

Fra Roderic — Thu, 09 May 2019 16:12:50 +0000

Ave Maria! Here is a homily from Fr. Elias for Divine Mercy Sunday 2019 at the Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse, WI. Sorry it is so late. I keep forgetting to check their site for their great videos. Enjoy!

Friar Roderic

Father Elias, FI, Rector of the Church of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe: In his homily he speaks about Divine Mercy Sunday and why Jesus requested it to be the Sunday after Easter.
Also, he talks about Confession, the Sacrament of Mercy, and about each of us being instruments of mercy to others.

READINGS:
ACTS 5:12-16
PS 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
REV 1:9-11A, 12-13, 17-19
JN 20:19-31

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