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Hi Everybody !

For those of you who might be interested, tomorrow (Sunday, 23 April 2003) is Divine Mercy Sunday. St. Faustina Kowalska reported that Jesus told her (in visions) that the first Sunday after Easter should be Divine Mercy Sunday. He also said that, on that day, He would open the floodgates of His heart and pour forth His mercy in a special and abundant way. He also said that anyone who goes to confession and receives Communion on that day would receive complete forgiveness of sin and all punishment for sin. Pope John Paul the Great declared the first Sunday after Easter to be Divine Mercy Sunday in the year 2000. For more information, see http://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/mercysundy.php

-- John

This Devotion and the Devotion to the Sacred Heart is what reconverted this lapsed Catholic back to the Church. And set fire to this lukewarm soul! (Ninth Day of the Novena!)

http://www.divinemercysunday.com/novena.htm

"The idea of this special celebration of God's mercy on the Sunday after Easter is not a new or radical idea stemming simply from private revelation. Our Lord, through Saint Faustina, is simply reemphasizing what was strongly urged by Saint Thomas the Apostle in the earliest liturgical document in existence, the "Apostolic Constitutions." There we read: "After eight days (following the feast of Easter) let there be another feast observed with honor, the eighth day itself on which He gave me, Thomas, who was hard of belief, full assurance, by showing me the print of the nails, and the wound made in His side by the spear."
This feast had been celebrated in the early Church.

"One of the greatest Doctors of the Church, St. Gregory of Nazianzen, also supports this Feast, declaring that the Octave day of Easter is even a greater Feast than Easter though it takes nothing whatever away from the greatness of the Day of the Resurrection itself. Easter Sunday is the boundary between death and life (a creation). But its eighth day, the Octave, is the fulfillment of what Easter is all about - perfect life in eternity (a second creation, more admirable and more sublime than the first).

"Easter Sunday represents our creation in the life of Grace through faith in the Risen Savior. The Octave Sunday of Easter represents the fulfillment of that "creation in grace." Thus it is, as St. Augustine says, 'The most privileged octave-day' and certainly merits the title 'Feast of The Divine Mercy.'"

http://www.divinemercysunday.com/theology_of_divine_mercy_sunday.htm


Christ is Risen!

It probably would have been helpful especialy for visitors to this forum to have mentioned that this occasion mentioned above is for the Latin Rite only.

Most Byzantines Catholics and Orthodox were keeping the feast of Easter today.

XB! BB!

ICXC
NIKA

Also, in St. Faustina's Diary, Our Lord talks about the preparation for His Second Coming.

http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/mercy/coming.htm

In paragraph 1732 of the Diary:

http://www.pdtsigns.com/popefaustina.html

A connection with John Paul II?

Pavel Ivanovich writes:

It probably would have been helpful especialy for visitors to this forum to have mentioned that this occasion mentioned above is for the Latin Rite only.

Most Byzantines Catholics and Orthodox were keeping the feast of Easter today.

Well, your Church can celebrate Divine Mercy next Sunday.

I do not recall that Jesus told St. Faustina Kowalska that His request is only for Western Christians. It may be necessary for me to read her Diary again.

Every Sunday in the Byzantine Catholic Church is Divine Mercy Sunday. I'm glad that the Latins are beginning to catch up with us.

CDL

Next Sunday for those on the old calendar is 'Thomas Sunday' and for those on the new calendar it will be the 'Sunday of the Myrrhbearers' .

XB! BB!

ICXC
NIKA

Carson Daniel Lauffner writes:

Every Sunday in the Byzantine Catholic Church is Divine Mercy Sunday.

This is directly contrary to what Jesus said on November 5, 1934:

St. Faustina: But, Jesus, I have one more word to say to You: I am very surprised that you bid me to talk about this Feast of Mercy, for they shall tell me that there is already such a feast and so why should I talk about it.

And Jesus said to me, And who knows anything about this feast? No one! Even those who should be proclaiming My mercy and teaching people about it ofter do not know about it themselves. (emphasis added in the original Diary).

Pavel Ivanovich writes:

Next Sunday for those on the old calendar is 'Thomas Sunday' and for those on the new calendar it will be the 'Sunday of the Myrrhbearers'.

Jesus has asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter. It is imprudent to ignore His request.

We follow the tradition of our Church. We dont make up our rules as we go along. Our Calendar is set and no Pope has suggested or ordered any changes to it. Pope John-Paul II did make a change to the Latin Church calendar and only to that Church's calendar.

We are not Latins and have no desire to be Latins. We have our own calendar and our own liturgical and Church tradition. We are not better than you, we are just a different and valid expression of the the faith that comes from the Apostles.

If we wanted Latin expressions of the faith we would go to their Churches.

XB!

ICXC
NIKA

Jesus, not the Pope, has requested the change be made to the calendar.

OY PAVEL !!

Remember the time difference

we are keeping the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ today

KHRISTOS VOSKRESE !

And next week, the Feast of Divine Mercy as Jesus has requested.

NO! We think not.

XB! BB!

ICXC
NIKA

We aren't big on Private Devotions. We honor them but we don't make them mandatory.

CDL