Today, the Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday.
What is Divine Mercy Sunday?
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.
St. Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun who received prophetic messages from Christ. These messages included revelations about the infinite mercy of God — coined “the divine mercy” — and her obligation to spread the message to the world as recorded in her diary, “Divine Mercy in My Soul.”
The late pope said in his homily that “the light of divine mercy, which the Lord in a way wished to return to the world through Sister Faustina’s charism, will illumine the way for the men and women of the third millennium.”