{"id":20473,"date":"2025-04-25T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=20473"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:32:08","slug":"divine-mercy-sunday-domingo-de-la-divina-misericordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/04\/25\/divine-mercy-sunday-domingo-de-la-divina-misericordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy Sunday \/ Domingo de la Divina Misericordia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em> – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Salesians of Don Bosco coat of arms bears an image of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of Divine Love. Nearby is a flaming Heart, the ardent Love of the Lord Jesus. Francis, who died in 1622 was an early devotee of the Sacred Heart. Some sixty years later, a Sister of the Visitation, founded by Francis, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, was favored with visions of the Sacred Heart, which marked the start of the First Friday devotions we celebrate today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidently, by the 1930s, the Heavens decided we of earth needed new impetus to honor God\u2019s Love and Mercy embedded in the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. God chose another Sister whose mind and heart were enflamed with the Love and Mercy of Christ. In the year 2000, St. John Paul II Canonized Sr. Faustina Kowalska of the Mercy of God and the Holy Eucharist, and entitled this Second Sunday of Easter as the Feast of Divine Mercy, as the Lord requested. The readings today become invitations to honor that Loving Mercy of Jesus.
\u201cYet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them.\u201d In the power of the Resurrection, the apostles set many free from sickness and disease, and many were added to the believers. (Acts 5:12-16)
\u201cOnce I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.\u201d Death no longer has power over us. To loud trumpet blasts, angels acclaim dominion of the Risen, Living Lord. He died. We die. Jesus is Immortal Life. In Him we too live forever! (See Rev 9a \u2013 19)
\u201cReceive the Holy Spirit. \u201cWhose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.\u201d \u2026 [Thomas] \u201cPut your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.\u201d What more consoling words can be spoken than those said to your Church, \u201cWhose sins you forgive are forgiven.\u201d What more consoling than the invitation to Thomas and us to believe? What more impetus do we need to embrace affectionately God\u2019s Love and Mercy in Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Domingo de la Divina Misericordia<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Por P. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

El escudo de los Salesianos de Don Bosco lleva una imagen de San Francisco de Sales, Doctor del Divino Amor. Cerca hay un Coraz\u00f3n en llamas, el Amor ardiente del Se\u00f1or Jes\u00fas. Francisco, que muri\u00f3 en 1622, fue uno de los primeros devotos del Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n.  Unos sesenta a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde, una Hermana de la Visitaci\u00f3n fundada por Francisco, Santa Margarita Mar\u00eda Alacoque, fue favorecida con visiones del Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n que marcaron el inicio de las devociones del Primer Viernes que celebramos hoy.
 
Evidentemente, en la d\u00e9cada de 1930 los Cielos decidieron que nosotros, los de la tierra, necesit\u00e1bamos un nuevo impulso para honrar el Amor y la Misericordia de Dios incrustados en el Coraz\u00f3n Eucar\u00edstico de Jes\u00fas. Dios eligi\u00f3 a otra Hermana cuya mente y coraz\u00f3n estaban inflamados con el Amor y la Misericordia de Cristo. En el a\u00f1o 2000, San Juan Pablo II canoniz\u00f3 a Sor Faustina Kowalska de la Misericordia de Dios y la Sagrada Eucarist\u00eda y titul\u00f3 este Segundo Domingo de Pascua como la Fiesta de la Divina Misericordia como el Se\u00f1or lo pidi\u00f3. Las lecturas de hoy se convierten en invitaciones a honrar esa Amorosa Misericordia de Jes\u00fas.
“Sin embargo, m\u00e1s que nunca, se a\u00f1adieron a ellos grandes creyentes en el Se\u00f1or, un gran n\u00famero de hombres y mujeres.”En el poder de la resurrecci\u00f3n, los ap\u00f3stoles liberaron a muchos de enfermedades y dolencias, y muchos se a\u00f1adieron a los creyentes. (Hechos 5:12-16.)
“Una vez estuve muerto, pero ahora estoy vivo por los siglos de los siglos. Yo tengo las llaves de la muerte y del inframundo”. La muerte ya no tiene poder sobre nosotros. Al son de las trompetas, los \u00e1ngeles aclaman el dominio del Se\u00f1or Viviente Resucitado. Muri\u00f3. Nos morimos. Jes\u00fas es la Vida Inmortal. \u00a1En \u00c9l tambi\u00e9n nosotros vivimos para siempre! (Ver Ap 9a \u2013 19)
“Recibe el Esp\u00edritu Santo. “A los que perdon\u00e9is los pecados, les quedan perdonados, y a los que retuvierais les quedan retenidos”\u2026 [Tom\u00e1s] “Pon tu dedo aqu\u00ed y mira mis manos, y trae tu mano y m\u00e9tela en mi costado, y no seas incr\u00e9dulo, sino cree”. \u00bfQu\u00e9 palabras m\u00e1s consoladoras se pueden pronunciar que las que se dicen a vuestra Iglesia: “A quienes perdon\u00e9is los pecados les quedan perdonados”? \u00bfQu\u00e9 m\u00e1s consolador que la invitaci\u00f3n a Tom\u00e1s y a nosotros a creer? \u00bfQu\u00e9 m\u00e1s impulso necesitamos para abrazar afectuosamente el Amor y la Misericordia de Dios en Jesucristo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB – The Salesians of Don Bosco coat of arms bears an image of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of Divine Love. Nearby is a flaming Heart, the ardent Love of the Lord Jesus. Francis, who died in 1622 was an early devotee of the Sacred Heart. Some sixty years later, a Sister of the Visitation, founded by Francis, St. Margaret … Continuar leyendo Divine Mercy Sunday \/ Domingo de la Divina Misericordia<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/intouch-scripture-graphic-600.jpg?fit=600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-5kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20582,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions\/20582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}