Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a day in which the Church gives us a golden opportunity to acknowledge our lack of faith, struggle to trust, and the burden of our human weakness and sin, whatever that may be. In turn, it is a day to receive the Lord’s mercy in abundance.
At the start of Holy Week, may our Holy Communion with Jesus help us commend our suffering to God the Father, and bear our crosses with trust in the compassionate heart of God!
We must never be satisfied with the status quo — Jesus’ words are very clear: “Unless your holiness surpasses that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Here is the recipe for happiness that will take us from here to eternity: if we rely on the grace of Christ, our Lord and Savior, we will have an inner joy and a peace that no one and nothing can take from us.
God saves the best of his earthly and heavenly gifts for last, and serves them with abundance and deep joy to those who wait for Him, trust Him, love Him.