This week, I have been attending our Parish Mission and last night the subject was Divine Mercy Sunday. I consider myself a practicing Catholic, but I'm sorry to say this subject was new to me. I guess I never really focused on it before.
As I learned Divine Mercy Sunday is on the first Sunday after Easter Sunday(this year it is on May 1) and was started by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000 at St. Faustinas' canonization.
It basically states that if you make a good confession during the Easter Season (Lent) and receive Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday, you will gain a Plenary Indulgence. As you know, if you sin and make a good confession, your sins are forgiven, but you still have Temporal punishment due in Purgatory for those sins. This "Novena", however, forgives all your past sins plus eliminates all Temporal punishment derived from those sins from your soul. As a sinner, it's an offer I can't refuse.
In addition, you may choose a soul of your loved one, who may currently be in Purgatory and that soul will immediately ascend into Heaven. Extraordinary!
With all that is going on in this world it makes one think that, maybe, God instituted Divine Mercy Sunday as a last chance. At least it's worth thinking about.
You may wish to forward this on to your family and Catholic friends and let them know there are several websites for "Divine Mercy Sunday" information.
In baseball terms, this is not only a Home Run, it's a Grand Slam.
A good confession must be made within 20 days before or 20 days after Divine Mission Sunday. Let's see what this Post brings us for comments.
Editors Notes: It should be noted, this was sent to me from a Family Member who is in their 70's and a life long member of the Catholic Church. If this is new and interesting to them/me, then it should be quite interesting to many of YOU.
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8 comments:
How nice of God to whisper in the ear of John Paul, and tell him to make this offer to his followers. I would suppose this doesn't work outside of Catholic churches, too, right?
Catholics....No disrespect meant, but that is some whack stuff... a "good" confession and you can send someone's soul to heaven? BUT, there's a 20 day time limit?? LOL. "Temporal punishment"?? I wonder if Christ is happy with this time limit...I've always wondered how the Catholic church can preach helping the poor while holding literally BILLIONS in gold, silver, art, land, and historical artifacts. Now we have "divine mercy Sunday"? Is that before or after Bingo?
Revelation speaks of 2 coming things. Abomination Causing Desolation (Roman Army coming to Destroy Jerusalem) or the 1st Beast. And it very plainly speaks of the 2nd beast. the 2nd beast is the Catholic Church. Rising from the Roman Goverment, it plagued the world and killed people (heretics) who didnt do exactly what they say. Take a historical look at that book. You want to see hypocrisy look at Catholic Leadership for the last 1800 years, not the followers, but the leadership. That is who I am banging on.
And so the last acceptable prejudice rears its ugly, ignorant head on SBYNews.
Briefly, Jesus gave to Peter as first Pope the power to forgive sins in His name. Read the Bible, that's what it says. Matthew 16:19, 18:18, etc.
Also, a "good confession" includes absence of all attachment to sin.
It should not be surprising to Christians that God in His Mercy forgives sins.
9:11 first off the people are the church, not the pope. Although the leadership has failed us many times the church is still going strong after 2000 years. secondly I am always amazed how those who love to bash my church use a book of scriptures put together by my church and taken from my church, then removed books and rewrote the passages to suit themselves!
At least the mormans had the balls to go find (write) their own book!
LOL!
I will first respond to 9:11. Before you comment and prove your ignorance, you should study a little history. The fist five popes were murdered by the Roman Government. How does this fact of history reconcile with your statement that the Church rose out of that government? Clearly, it does not. The Catholic Church converted pagan Rome to Christianity. This was a triumph for Christ, not the Roman Government.
Again, read some history. Cleanse your mind of Anti-Catholic mythology. You are very confused.
Jesus died for our sins & rose on the third day. If we accept Him into our heart believing He dies for our sins, that is all the absolution that is needed (John 3:16). We are to live a Christ-like life. I believe our faith & love in Him is the only way to heaven, we can not work our way there (Ephesians 2: 8 & 9). The Bible also says upon death those that believe on Him are with him immediately, no Pergutory. (John 23:43)
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Please be careful with what you write when you attempt to represent the Word of God. To start with, there is no John 23:43.
There is a Luke 43:23. In it Jesus said, "Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). "Today" does not have the same meaning as "immediately." One who is already "saved" will spend time in Purgatory. The length of time might be a 10th of a second or a thousand years. Nobody knows but God.
All Christians believed in Purgatory before the Reformation. To support his novel idea of NOT believing in Purgatory, Martin Luther omitted from his bible some books from the old Testament that provided the proof text for purgatory. This is one reason why the Protestant bible has fewer Old Testament books than the Bible had for over 1,000 years prior to his time.
Did you know this history? Check it out. Learn the truth.
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