I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me (Psalm 30: 2a)

An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to sins that have already been forgiven, and it can be plenary or partial.

Divine Mercy Sunday is the Sunday after Easter each year. Divine Mercy Sunday was first announced in an April 2000 homily given by Pope John Paul II for the Mass celebrating the canonization of Maria Faustina Kowalska.

For He has risen, as He said” we hear in the Gospel of the Easter Vigil. The Lord Jesus has fulfilled His promise. We have nothing to fear because of His definitive victory over the death of sin and the death of the body.

When Divine Mercy Sunday rolls around again this year, the faithful have the opportunity to take refuge in the depths of Christ’s mercy by receiving either a plenary or partial indulgence.

During Holy Week we commemorate the most important events in the Life of our Loving Savior Jesus Christ. These events of almost two thousand years ago are real and alive in our day. What happened then continues to happen now. This is the key to opening up the Life of Christ in our personal lives and in the world we live in.

John 11: 25-26 – Ego sum resurrectio et vita; qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet: et omnis qui vivit et credit in me, non morietur in aeternum. Credis hoc? I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?