The second Sunday of Easter is called Divine Mercy Sunday. Do you know what the words “divine” and “mercy” mean? These are probably not words you use every day, right? Divine just means “belonging to God”. Divine love is Gods love and divine mercy is Gods mercy. To be merciful means to be forgiving and loving at the same time.
For example, when you have a tantrum and you don’t want to listen to your mommy or daddy, or when you pick on your brother or sister, or you don’t want to share… it’s not nice to behave like that, right? I am sure that after you calm down and think about what happened you always realize that now you need to apologize and make things better again: you go find your mommy, daddy or brother, sister and tell them “Sorry!”. They love you so much that they always forgive you – they show mercy – and then there are lots of hugs and cuddles.
God is like a loving father – He loves us so much that He is always waiting for us with open arms. However often we mess up, whatever we do… if in our heart we ask for forgiveness and are truly sorry for what we have done, God, our Heavenly Father, always hugs us in his loving and forgiving arms. Isn’t that awesome, to be loved so much?!
A long time ago, there was a little girl, who grew up to become a nun and is now a saint who we can look up to as a role model. Saint Sister Faustina loved Jesus a lot and prayed to him always. One day Jesus visited Sister Faustina and told her in her heart to always trust in Him and to never be afraid to talk to Him. He also assured her, that God always loves us and forgives us. Jesus asked Sister Faustina to tell everyone in the world how much our Heavenly Father loves us. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that he wants us to come to him always also when we did some mistakes or when we were naughty: God just wants to love us and if we ask for forgiveness he will always pick us up and hug us, like a loving dad!
Jesus also showed Sister Faustina how to best pray to Him – the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Maybe one day Mommy and Daddy can pray it with you – maybe even today! When they have the chance, Martin and Lisa love to cuddle up with their Grandfather (Nagyapa) and join him in praying this prayer even though they don’t understand many many of the words in it.
Today, after Martin and Lisa stopped at every word of the prayer to ask what it means, we decided to write a little prayer together: with words that Lisa, Martin and you will understand easily well.
Joy in their Eyes 
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