Truth & Mercy Series - March 30th 2026

“I do not desire the death of a wicked man says the Lord, but that he repents and lives.”  

God has always been faithful to his promises manifest in His living Words. These words never change because God himself is faithful and can never deny His very self. It is this same reason that God gave humanity another opportunity and actually gives opportunities that are uncountable so no one can say God did not love him/her. God sent his Son principally so that “everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3: 16). Jesus death on the cross is the most eloquent testimony to his sacrificial love for everyone, you and I. He died for us while we were yet sinners.  

This promise of God can be accessed through the Sacraments especially Baptism, Holy Eucharist and indeed the sacrament of reconciliation or penance. Jesus waited until after his resurrection to extend this powerful gift of the sacrament of forgiveness to the apostles. This is the sacrament of the “KEY” to unlock sin and bring the refreshment of new life. He came to them in the Upper Room (where the first Eucharistic sacrifice took place and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit), “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” (John 20: 20-23). Jesus Christ had risen. He had gained VICTORY over sin and death on the cross. He had gone to the underworld to set our ancestors in the faith free and opened PARADISE again. Now He makes the priceless gift available to the Church of God.  

God knows us so well and He sees the terror of sin is increasing in the world. The tide of darkness and gloom looms because of our weaknesses and “wandering” away from the path of righteousness. God never flees from us. No! He already told us in the letter of St. Paul to the Romans, “The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more.” (Romans 5: 20). The fact that one has the misfortune of sinning is not the problem, the greater disaster is not to get up and “access” grace and mercy from the Divine Heart of the Savior. Our Lord told St. Faustina, “The greater the sinner, the greater the right he has to My mercy. My mercy is confirmed in every work of My hands. He who trusts in My mercy will not perish, for all his affairs are Mine, and his enemies will be shattered at the base of My footstool.” (Dairy, 723).