Divine Mercy Sunday

Second Sunday of Easter

Divine Mercy Sunday

Why Catholics Celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday

By Rev. Alfred McBride, O.Praem.

On the Second Sunday of Easter of the Jubilee Year 2000, at the Mass for the canonization of St. Faustina Kowalska, Pope John Paul II proclaimed to the world that “from now on throughout the Church this Sunday will be called Divine Mercy Sunday.” … link to the article

The Quality of Mercy ... an article by Gerard O'Connell

Second Sunday of Easter ... a homily by Fr. Robert Barron 

Conversations of the Merciful God With a Sinful Soul ... Divine Mercy Notebook V

Chaplet of Divine Mercy in song - Video and sung prayer

Texts from the liturgy of the Second Sunday of Easter

Collect

God of everlasting mercy,
who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast
kindle the faith of the people you have made your own,
increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed,
that all may grasp and rightly understand
in what font they have been washed,
by whose Spirit they have been reborn,
by whose Blood they have been redeemed.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Prayer after Communion

Grant, we pray, almighty God,

that our reception of this paschal Sacrament

may have a continuing effect

in our minds and hearts.

Through Christ our Lord

Pope John Paul II with Mehmet Ali Ağca, 1983,

forgiving his attempted assassin