In its celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday, the Church speaks to the world the message that it desperately desires to hear. As Tony explains, despite the apparent self-assuredness and self-sustaining façade the world puts up, as human creatures we also betray a sense of being broken and in need of a God Who Is Goodness and Mercy. Today’s celebration meets this desire of the human heart, revealing that God’s Mercy and Love are inexhaustible, and desirous of expending Itself so that we might have life to the full.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Acts 4:32-35.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24.
Reading 2: 1 John 5:1-6
Gospel: John 20:19-31
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.