Divine Mercy: There’s No Going Back To Normal (For Jesus)  

The past week has been extremely hectic and super tiring for me, to put it lightly. 

So, I’m extra grateful for the weekend and this Sunday, as I get to spend quality time with the entire family. 

Yes, I missed them terribly throughout the week!

Interestingly, though, I realize that I just spent the entire Holy Week and Easter with them, and that was just last week. Yet, it honestly feels like weeks or a couple of months ago!

I begin to imagine Easter, the celebration of the fulfillment of God’s promise of salvation and eternal life, has become a simple “occasion” that comes and goes for some of us, just like pages in the calendar that we tear off as they pass.  

Well, that’s just how it is, right? 

Life goes on, and we, now, more than ever, should be ready to accept and embrace it. For the past three years, we have yearned to return to normal. Remember?

It must be the price we all have to pay.

However, I believe it’s not quite right for our Lord Jesus. 

Nothing’s going back to “normal” from Easter onwards.     

It’s the Feast of Divine Mercy today, and what’s so special about it is Jesus’ promise of salvation is a continuing story. 

Yes, our salvation may have been assured and highlighted by Easter when He rose from the dead, but through St. Faustina Kowalska, to whom He appeared and spoke, He wants us to remember His love and mercy endure.  He doesn’t want us to remember those only whenever we commemorate and celebrate His passion and resurrection once a year.

He wants us to live it. 

He told St. Faustina: 

“I want the Image to be solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, and I want it to be venerated publicly so that every soul may know about it…

My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy.” 

As Pope John Paul II declared on the Second Sunday of Easter of the Jubilee Year 2000, every Sunday after Easter will be called “Divine Mercy Sunday,” a fitting reminder that Christ continues to be there for us as our refuge.  

Christ has given us a lifeline we can turn to whenever we feel stuck and need the most help to move on so we can focus on living life to the fullest and preparing to meet Him. 

What I like about the Feast of Divine Mercy is it introduces me to another aspect of Christ. 

He’s a God of continuation. 

He did not stop at delivering a message of Eternal Life and proving a point on Easter Sunday.   

Through Divine Mercy Sunday, He tells us we can put our complete trust and confidence in Him as our refuge when we feel defeated by sin or by the world around us. 

We can always turn to Him, ask for forgiveness, and continue living and striving to be the best versions of ourselves. 

So, come hell or high pressure living life, we always have the Lord in our corner to patch and mend us, ready to face the world again!