REFLECTION ON DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY YEAR B: By Rev Fr Emmanuel. I

🗣 Basking in the euphoria of the glorious resurrection of our saviour, the Mother Church invites us today into the bottomless and endless Pool of the Mercy of God, an abyss beyond our comprehension. The liturgical celebrations that come up after the re-enactment of the glorious resurrection of Christ gives us richness and the splendour of the liturgical life of the church. The great feast day of today, Divine Mercy Sunday, leaves us with immense insight into God’s love for mankind. We are encouraged to turn our gaze to Christ and to experience and value his reassuring presence.

✍🏻 In my deep thought on the essence of existence, I have come to understand that life, in order to be worth living, must constant renewal and restoration. The high point of the liturgy of the Word today reassures us this very fact. The Bible tells us that the disciples of Jesus were in a closed door because of the fear of the Jews. In his glorious body he appeared and stood amongst them. He breathed on them to transform them into a conduit and dispensers of mercy saying: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’ – ( Jn 20:23).

👌🏻 That is simply a mandate for effective and ongoing renewal, transformation and restoration in the Church. We can therefore say that devoid of the mercy of God, we are turned into earthenware and cannot be able to achieve any spiritual good. The case of the Prodigal Son is a typical instance – ( Lk 15: 11-32 ). The moment he experienced the boundless and loving mercy of His Father his life was renewed and restored. A new page was absolutely turned in the son’s life.

🤝 Jesus desires our total submission to his abyss of mercy. He patiently waits for our return. At the Tribunal of Mercy / Confessional he expects us to unzip our sinful hearts to him and kindly immense ourselves into the abyss of his mercy and have our story of life be re-written. On this subject, Pope Francis at his Easter Message, Urbi et Orbi in 2013 gives his timeless pieces of advice saying: ‘God’s mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones.’

☝ Encountering Jesus will fill us with the desire to make a difference in the face of the world. May we value and treasure more profoundly the mystery of Divine mercy and transform it in our daily lives through works of mercy directed towards our neighbour.

🙌🏻 CHEERS TO OUR MOTHERS AS WE CELEBRATE THEM TODAY. MAY THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION TRANSFORM THEM AND MAY THE DEAD 💀 ONES EXPERIENCE THE BOUNDLESSNESS OF THE MERCY OF GOD!!!