Mercy is different. We give mercy whether the person deserves it or not; whether the person has made amends in some way or not. That is especially true when we look at Divine Mercy. When God gives us mercy, I dare say we definitely do not deserve it. Yet Jesus Christ, the Son of God, continues to offer it to us.
In the 1930's, a Polish nun named Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska began having visions of Our Lord. He told her about Divine Mercy and asked her to be the apostle and secretary who would tell the world about this wonderful message of Divine Mercy. Jesus asked her to have a painting done of how He was appearing before her. That image is now known as the Divine Mercy image. This famous image shows Jesus dressed in a white rob with his right hand raised in a blessing. From His heart are two rays of light; one red and the other pale.
At the bottom are inscribed the words, “Jesus I trust in youâ€. The colors of the rays symbolize the blood and water that flowed from Christ's side at the Crucifixion. It is at the Crucifixion that we see the greatest example of Divine Mercy. Mercy flows from Christ's Sacred Heart, as it does in the image. Our Lord also asked St. Faustina to spread the devotion of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and to work towards having the Second Sunday of Easter be named Divine Mercy Sunday. She wasn't the first to talk about Divine Mercy; Catholics have been honoring the mercy that God has shown us for centuries before St. Faustina was even born. The message that she spread, however, has helped Catholics around the world to be able to reflect better on what mercy really means.
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