Christ’s Divine Mercy

Silver Jubilee This Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, is an extraordinary combination of special occasions. This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary, or silver jubilee, of the canonization of Saint Faustina Kowalska and the proclamation of Divine Mercy Sunday, both issued by Pope Saint John Paul II on April 30, 2000. The canonization of Blessed Carlo […]

Jesus I trust in You Divine Mercy Painting at Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse, Wisconsin

Silver Jubilee

This Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, is an extraordinary combination of special occasions. This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary, or silver jubilee, of the canonization of Saint Faustina Kowalska and the proclamation of Divine Mercy Sunday, both issued by Pope Saint John Paul II on April 30, 2000. The canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis will also take place on April 27.

Besides, all of 2025 is a Jubilee Year for the Church, a time when she especially encourages her children to seek God’s grace and mercy through the sacraments. The convergence of the Divine Mercy silver jubilees with the regular Jubilee Year forms a special gift of God’s Providence, a particularly graced occasion to draw near to Him.

Channel of Particular Grace

The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe invites all to a sacredly joyous celebration of this unique day. As a designated place of pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year, the Shrine is blessed to be a channel of particular grace every day of 2025, but all the more so on Divine Mercy Sunday, when Our Lord especially longs to pour out His life and love through the Sacraments. “Whoever approaches the Fount of Life on this day will be granted complete remission of sins and punishment,” Jesus told Saint Faustina (Diary, §300). Opportunities at the Shrine that day include Confessions offered through most of the day, veneration of a relic of Saint Faustina, the Divine Mercy Chaplet prayed in Spanish and then in English, and a reflection led by Cardinal Burke.

Saint Faustina and Blessed Carlo Acutis

Through the intercession of Saint Faustina and soon-to-be-canonized Carlo Acutis, may this extraordinary Divine Mercy Sunday bring many—at Our Lady’s Shrine and everywhere—to receive the flood of grace and mercy that Our Lord offers to all.