DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY - 2nd Sunday Easter 2024

POINTING TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD

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Dear friends in Christ,

On this Divine Mercy Sunday we remember especially Maureen and all of our brothers and sisters who have requested to be prayed for. May God grant them all they need. May God grant eternal rest to Imelda Lum Che,

Brothers and sisters in Christ, in the readings today, we see Mercy, Divine Mercy in action.

You've often heard it said,that "it doesn't matter how deep you fall. What matters is how high you bounce back". Thomas and Judas both betrayed Jesus by their words & actions but one of them shows us Christians what matters after we wonder away from God's path - What a perfect confession looks like. Imagine the look in Thomas’ face when Jesus spoke to him – the joyful tears in his eyes reflecting God's awe and wonder. Thomas' most amazing proclamation in the gospel today “My Lord and my God” reflects and demonstrates not only his understanding of Christ's divinity, his humility to change for the better but also his conviction that God is faithful, that God is loving, and that God is merciful.

In the 1st reading, the early Christian communities with their hearts and minds seemed to have translated these convictions in their every day actions and lived these well, happily sharing their possessions and selling what they didn’t need. Not because they had been forced to, but as we are told in the 2nd reading that they realised and demonstrated "what loving God is – keeping his commandments; and his commandments are not difficult,” for those who love Him.

Dearly beloved, God loved us first, and by his grace, and his mercy, we are commanded and empowered to love one another.

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