Dear Friends in christ
This Sunday brings us to the end of the Easter Octave but the Easter Season continues for fifty days until Pentecost. During this time we live, as did the Apostles, in the light of the Risen Christ. We listen to Him as they would have listened in those post-Resurrection days: full of awe-filled faith. Jesus would have been confirming their faith in Him, reminding them of what He had taught them all along and reassuring them that He would always be with them. Today the Church especially celebrates the Mercy of God which Jesus manifested at the moment of His appearing to the Apostles in the Upper Room. This gift of His Mercy is available to us always, especially in the Sacrament of His Mercy: Confession. Many of us have availed ourselves of this grace throughout Lent and Holy Week and this Sunday is another opportunity for us to be bathed in the twin streams of blood and water that flowed from His Heart upon the Cross. This Sunday afternoon there will be the usual Devotions for the Divine Mercy.