Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

And here is one of those weeks.

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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,

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