...and on visiting young relatives, I noticed that in the latest edition of the Sunday Missal this Sunday is of course officially listed as Divine Mercy Sunday. It felt rather splendid to look back and remember St John Paul and that encyclical on Divine Mercy, and all of us asking "What's all this about? Of course God is merciful...", and then the story of St Faustina becomg better and better known...
But it made me feel sort of old, too...the young First Communicant whose beautiful white-and-gold missal I was perusing will always see Divine Mercy Sunday as a normal part of the Calendar, and St John Paul the Great as simply one of the saints of the Church, a figure in Heaven and in history...while some of us remember him as the Pope, met him, talked to him...
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