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Hey there, Sprouts. today is Wednesday, April 15th, 2020, and we are still celebrating Easter

in the octave of Easter. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about Easter,

but talking about it by another name,

by divine mercy, which we are walking toward on Sunday, the great, big, huge finale celebration of

Easter. Now, we've already talked about how Jesus himself asked for this feast, a feast celebrating

his mercy, and how on this day, if we go to confession and receive Holy Eucharist, it is like a

second baptism.

We've already talked about the image that shows the blood from the side of Jesus and the

water in lights, in rays shooting from his heart,

and how we are reminded of the great gift of the Eucharist and baptism to incredible signs of Jesus' mercy.

Now, this week we've been talking about miracles associated with the divine mercy.

Yesterday we saw how powerful the divine mercy is at a moment of

someone's death and how through praying the divine mercy chaplet with someone as they die,

Jesus promises them the final perseverance to fight off the temptations they face in those

final moments. Today we're going to see through

another miracle how the divine mercy transforms not only us, but transforms the world. Easter joy

should be contagious, the idea that death isn't the end, that we have a God who loves us that conquered death

and promises to free us from our sins and bring us with him to heaven.

That is the promise of Easter and that is the promise of the divine mercy.

That we have been granted mercy, that we should grant

mercy to others who have sinned against us, and in those final moments, if we trust in Jesus,

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