God's mercy is divine! It is all about having faith, praying, believing, trusting in Jesus! Jesus, I trust in you!

God's mercy is divine! It is all about faith, believing, trusting in Jesus! Jesus, I trust in you! We see healing coming from God, from Jesus, His disciples, the Holy spirit within us, we have the healing power, we can say the Divine Mercy Chaplet rosary, this has power. Jesus promised St. Faustina that He would intercede for us when we say the chaplet for the dying, it is a powerful prayer. He also promised that when we confess our sins and receive communion on Divine Mercy Sunday, we can have special graces and mercy for our sins, mercy to remove all of sin and judgement when we die. What a blessing from God! Jesus I trust in You! We saw in the Mass readings this week about Thomas, he doubted that Jesus had raised from the dead, he needed to see Him and touch his wound on His side, to believe it was Jesus. He then realized it was the Lord, and said, my Lord and my God! That saying we always say when the priest consecrates the Eucharist during the mass, we say my Lord and my God, signifying that God is very present in the Eucharist, we are receiving Jesus, that is why going to church and receiving communion, Jesus is so important. I love going to church, I always want to receive communion, I always go to confession a few times a year. I try not to sin and to be upright and holy, but we are all human and we slip and sin, God knows this, that is why He gave us Jesus, Jesus died for our sins. When we follow, reflect, and imitate Jesus, our model to follow, we are promised life eternal in Heaven with Him! We need to work on our faith, like Thomas, trust, believe, it is so critical. Say the Chaplet, say Jesus I trust in You, believe! That is what it is all about, that is our Catholic faith! It is All we need to do is learn, read the Bible follow Jesus, reflect, and imitate Him, believe in Him! Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting! Jesus  is our Lord and our God! 

Second Sunday of Easter

Sunday of Divine Mercy

Reading I
Acts 5:12-16
Many signs and wonders were done among the people
at the hands of the apostles.
They were all together in Solomon’s portico.
None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord,
great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets
and laid them on cots and mats
so that when Peter came by,
at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.
A large number of people from the towns
in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered,
bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits,
and they were all cured.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
R  (1) Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R  Alleluia.
Let the house of Israel say,
            “His mercy endures forever.”
Let the house of Aaron say,
            “His mercy endures forever.”
Let those who fear the LORD say,
            “His mercy endures forever.”
R  Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R  Alleluia.
I was hard pressed and was falling,
            but the LORD helped me.
My strength and my courage is the LORD,
            and he has been my savior.
The joyful shout of victory
            in the tents of the just:
R  Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R  Alleluia.
The stone which the builders rejected
            has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
            it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has made;
            let us be glad and rejoice in it.
R  Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R  Alleluia.

Reading II
Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19
I, John, your brother, who share with you
the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus,
found myself on the island called Patmos
because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus.
I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day
and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which said,
“Write on a scroll what you see.”
Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me,
and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands
and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man,
wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.
When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead.
He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid.
I am the first and the last, the one who lives.
Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever.
I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.
Write down, therefore, what you have seen,
and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.”

Alleluia
John 20:29
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord;
blessed are those who have not seen me, but still believe!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
John 20:19-31
On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks
and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a week later his disciples were again inside
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were locked,
and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that through this belief you may have life in his name.