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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, April 20th, 2020. We are also, of course, 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 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, nothing,

absolutely nothing can keep us from him. Now, today's miracle starts out very sad. A number of years

ago, actually not long ago at all, a 17-year-old boy named Dominic

was killed instantly in a car crash.

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