Today we celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter. The Church celebrates the Feast of Divine Mercy.

This is a fitting time to focus on God's forgiving love, the mercy poured out through the suffering, death, and resurrection of His Son, including the mercy He shows each one of us in ways too numerous to count.

Mercy means God's Heart desiring to alleviate our misery caused by personal sin. The "Good news" is that Jesus is the Divine Physician who came to heal the sickness of sin. As we receive His forgiveness, we are compelled by this love to trust Jesus and avoid sin in the future.