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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Monday, May 6th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast,

we are going to be talking about a beautiful revelation that God gave to St. Faustina many years ago.

It is called the Divine Mercy. We just celebrated the

feast day of the Divine Mercy exactly one week after Easter, and although we have to wait

nearly a year to celebrate that feast day again, the Divine Mercy is something that should bring

us peace and joy every day of the year.

Now, there is a lot to talk about with the divine mercy, and we are going to be spending all

week on this topic. But before we get into that, today, we are going to talk about the idea

of mercy. What does mercy mean? What is it?

Well, let's start here. Mercy, we are told in the catechism, is basically the gospel.

Everything that we read in the Bible, especially in the Gospels, which are the story of Jesus Christ's time on earth, is a revelation of God's love for us.

Or we could also say a revelation of His mercy for us.

In fact, the words love and mercy are deeply linked. Pope Benedict said that

mercy is love's second name. In other words, mercy is just simply a type of love. Mercy, in fact, is the type of love that occurs when love

enters a situation where there is suffering, pain, and sin. So whenever we come into a situation

where someone is suffering physical, mental, or spiritual pain,

where someone is dealing with a type of sin, or someone is just in a suffering stage,

if we come into that situation and we comfort them or try to just be with them in any way,

then we are loving them and we are

showing mercy. Now, in a very real way, the only way that God loves us is through an act of mercy.

The entire time that we will spend on this earth, our whole life will have some

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