Sunday, April 3, 2016

A Word from Your Pastor - April 3 Divine Mercy Sunday

Dear Parishioners:

Divine Mercy Sunday is a day of great graces in the Church.  This is a moment where Heaven and Earth collaborate to allow the greatest of God’s attributes, His Mercy, to flow.  All that is required is the heart open to receive what is offered and a willingness to do simple things that express that inner disposition.

You are invited to collaborate with the Parishes of the Northwest Columbus Deanery to ask for this Mercy by participating in the Divine Mercy Devotion to be held this Sunday at St. Brigid of Kildare Church in Dublin at 3 p.m.  It will be preceded by an hour with confessions available from priests of various parishes of the Deanery.  This is our common effort as a Deanery, that is, as a region of the Diocese of Columbus, to celebrate the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.

In our own parish this weekend, we experience Mercy by way of our communal celebration of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.  The reality of illness and our experience of the fragility of human life unite us in our recognition of human weakness.  We see clearly our need for God’s touch of Mercy.

Mercy is the one quality of God that all the world religions that believe in God seem to agree on.  While there are many differences in our overall understanding of Who God IS, the simple fact is that we can all acknowledge that the God Who created the universe shows Mercy to His creatures.  In this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, we are invited to tap into God’s Mercy and to do all we can to ensure that it flows through us outward to those most in need of Mercy.

Prayer in common is powerful.  Let us join together today on this Divine Mercy Sunday to pray that God may have mercy on us and on the whole world.


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