Divine Mercy Sunday

Upcoming Divine Mercy Sunday Celebrations:

Mass, Chaplet, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Veneration of the First Class Relic of St. Faustina.
Following Mass: Movie on the Life of St. Faustina, Pope John Paul II and Maximillian Kolby.
(NOTE: There will be no Confession on Divine Mercy Sunday.)

Past Divine Mercy Sunday Celebrations:

Divine Mercy Sunday 2007
St. Mel Church, Fr. Michael Sears

Divine Mercy Sunday is the First Sunday after Easter. It was named by Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St. Maria Faustina on April 30, 2000, and then officially decreed by the Vatican.

Jesus revealed in various revelations to St. Faustina that it was His desire that we celebrate this special feast. "The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy." (Diary, 699)

Our Lord revealed to St. Faustina His desire to literally flood us with His graces on that day. Just consider each of the promises and desires that He expressed about Mercy Sunday, which are recorded in the main passage of the Diary — passage 699 — about Mercy Sunday:

On that day the very depths of My tender Mercy are open.
I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon these souls who approach the Fount of My mercy [the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist].
The soul that will go to Confession [beforehand] and receive Holy Communion [on that day] shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.
On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened.
Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet.
The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness.
It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter