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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.

We all have our part in this sacred story.

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!

Jesus encourages us to be slow to judge and condemn, but eager to seek justice with compassion.

Lent is a time to stop wasting the inheritance given to us so graciously by the Father of Jesus Christ, our Savior. It is a time to come home to God.

God is patient, kind, and merciful with us, even when we are suffering.

Prayer changes everything because it sheds the light of Christ’s grace on everything.

These days are a gift, a graced opportunity to fall more deeply in love with God and to learn how to follow Christ more closely.

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.”

This week, Jesus adds one more group to the list of those he regards as blessed but we find hard to love. And it is our enemies.

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.

Today’s Liturgy of the Word poses the question: Where do we find God in our lives?

This story of Jesus’ Presentation delivers a powerful message about our own responsibility to share the good news.

We are, by God’s saving design, E Pluribus Unum – out of many members, the Lord has formed one Church by his grace.

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.

The big day of our baptism has shaped our identity forever because it has made us all servants of Christ and his mission.

People can be the stars that direct others to Christ today – people who believe in Christ and strive to be Christ’s disciples every day.

Family life has definitely changed in the 21st century, but the call to be a holy family has not changed.

This is the message of Christmas: that God has visited us in Christ and made our dreams for eternal life come true.

On this Third Sunday of Advent, we pause for a moment of rejoicing.