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.

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Dear People of God,

Christ Our Lord is risen today! Alleluia! Alleluia! Today, we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ! This event is the greatest event in our Catholic faith. It is through the resurrection that Christ defeated sin and death and opened for us the gates to eternal life. A journey that began sorrowfully on Ash Wednesday has ended joyfully today. Light has eventually overcome darkness, and we have seen the glory of Christ.

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Luke's Gospel is the only one to report the exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees as Jesus enters Jerusalem. Jesus' response shows that this event, and those yet to come, are part of a divine plan. We hear this echoed again in Luke's description of the Last Supper when Jesus speaks of Judas's betrayal, saying that the Son of Man "goes as has been determined." Throughout Luke's Gospel, we see that Jesus' words and actions proclaim the Kingdom of God. This theme continues throughout the Passion narrative. Jesus appears to be in total command of events at the Passover meal as he hands over the kingdom to his disciples. He welcomes them to the Passover meal, announcing that this will be his last until the Kingdom of God is fulfilled.

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The Gospel is one of the great Jesus stories and perhaps one of the most controversial. The central piece in which the woman, who is a sinner, is accepted by Jesus and forgiven. She is shamed, paraded, humiliated under the sentence of death. Jesus pronounces a sentence of life and ongoing conversion. The focus of Christian reconciliation is the sinner, not the sin. Jesus risks the wrath of the Law, the leaders, and the hearers to free the unnamed woman, and He does so within the temple itself.

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