Actual Divine Mercy

Today, Divine Mercy Sunday, is a particular expression of God's magnanimity for us through the Petrine Office.

Divine Mercy is the day (the octave day of Easter) instituted by Pope John Paul II at the beginning of the new millenium under the aegis of Christ's mercy (as Christ Himself had requested in His revelations to Saint Faustina, the first saint to be canonized in the new millenium). Furthermore, it was Saturday evening (2 April 2005), just after the Vigil Mass of Divine Mercy Sunday that that great servant of God died. The Servant of God John Paul II died on the first Saturday of the month and on the Feast of Divine Mercy.

Now, today, 19 April 2009, is the forth anniversary of the prodigious election of Ratzinger, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, to the chair of Peter, which he fills so well with the vigilance of the Good Shepherd, warding off the wolves who constantly attack and destroy the flock of Christ, and with the shepherd's staff that also gently and strategically draws the sheep into the one fold of Catholicity.

Bless God Who in His infinite mercy continues to lead the Church and the world with the leadership and teaching of this most able and necessary Cooperator Veritatis.

The good Lord shows us today, by this Divine Mercy "coincidence" of the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI that the Petrine Office in every age is a grand manifestation of His merciful love, not least in our own day. Deo Gratias pro Papa Benedicto!