Sunday’s Blessing – 04/12/2026 – 2nd Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy
I’m still learning about the liturgical calendar. I never knew the Easter theme continued for seven weeks until Pentecost Sunday. This year, the seven themes for the Sundays of Easter cover the full scope of the relationship between the Believer and the Creator.
Since this series started last week (and I missed it) let’s look at this year’s theme for Easter Sunday was the Focus of Hope, Victory Over Death, and New Beginnings. Jesus promised His disciples that He would rise from the dead on the third day. He wanted to give them something to hope for, something to believe in, something to replace the black hole the crucifixion of Jesus would create in their soul.
Through the victory over Death, Hell, and the Grave, He restored their belief that Jesus was, in fact, the Messiah. Life as they knew it would never be the same. It truly was a time of new beginnings.
This week, the 2nd Sunday of Easter, calls us to look at Divine Mercy. As humans, we have the ability to show a level of mercy to others. Things like compassion, pity, and empathy can lead us to things for others, but when you look back at all Christ endured in the week leading up to the crucifixion, you see something beyond human caring. You see Divine Mercy in action. Jesus, laying down every aspect of His human life to become the Supreme Sacrifice needed to save mankind, gave Himself up as the Passover Lamb without spot or blemish, providing the blood needed for the propitiation (see earlier post explaining this) to redeem all people, past, present, and future.
When Jesus presented Himself to the disciples and others in the days following His crucifixion, He restored hope in the promise of the Father to send the Second Adam, the Son of God, to once-for-all remove the penalty of sin brought on by the First Adam. Jesus fulfilled the promise made by the Creator in the Garden of Eden when He proclaimed, “The seed of Eve would crush the head of the serpent (satan).” This was accomplished by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Divine Mercy had intervened into human existence to make salvation possible. This was the purpose of Easter.
Today’s Blessing:
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 (ESV)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:4-6 (ESV)
