Divine Mercy Sunday/Confession question

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I would like to attend Divine Mercy April the 15th and have searched to try and find an answer to my question. I know I need to go to confession before Divine Mercy Sunday so to keep true to this grace does it just mean I need to go before that Sunday?Our paraish was holding Communal Penance services today which I was not able to attend. Could I go this Saturday?
 
I’m not sure if you can go a whole week ahead of time, but I think I remember reading somewhere that you could go the Saturday before Divine Mercy Sunday.

Several parishes in our diocese are having Divine Mercy celebrations on that Sunday with confessions before and after the Mass. Maybe you could check and see if any of your local parishes are offering anything similar.
 
Deidre said:
I’m not sure if you can go a whole week ahead of time, but I think I remember reading somewhere that you could go the Saturday before Divine Mercy Sunday.

Several parishes in our diocese are having Divine Mercy celebrations on that Sunday with confessions before and after the Mass. Maybe you could check and see if any of your local parishes are offering anything similar.
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I’m pretty sure that Divine Mercy Sunday is bound by the same normal conditions as other plenary indulgences - which means you can confess at least a week before or after. Most parishes wouldn’t have confessions on the very day itself at any rate. I know those around here don’t.
 
Why risk it if there is some uncertainty?
On one occasion, I heard these words: My daughter, tell the whole world about My Inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.* [our emphasis] On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will I contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity. The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy. (Diary 699)
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Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to our neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to absolve yourself from it. (Diary 742)
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I want to grant complete pardon to the souls that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on the Feast of My mercy. (Diary 1109)
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LilyM said:
Because so few parishes (at least around here) do have Confessions on Sundays, which includes Divine Mercy Sunday …
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What about confession on Saturday, followed by Vigil Mass (Divine Mercy Sunday Vigil on Saturday)?
 
As I understand it
JPII instituted a plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday which follows under the normal conditions
HOWEVER, Our Lord offers the grace of what could be thought of as another baptism - complete remission of sin and temporal punishment - to those who go to confession, receive the Eucharist at Mass that Sunday, and venerate the image and recite the chaplet in public (or whatever the criteria are, maybe in private 🙂 )

Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge Massachusetts would know, google them and look at their website.
 
I thought the rule around indulgences was “within 8 days”. Not sure where I picked that up, but I thought that was the rule.

Also, it seems to me that I recall Fr. Groeschel doing a show on Divine Mercy Sunday, and I believe he said that attending confession any time during the Easter season would be sufficent. Not sure I remember that right, however.

Im lucky enough to live near Stockbridge, so I’m thinking about heading up to the Divine Mercy Shrine (I go to confession there often). But it always **pours **rain there on Divine Mercy Sunday (for which Mass is always in the open, not in the Shrine Church).
 
Go here ewtn.com/tv/prime_wednesday.asp and listen to ETN Live in the “Archived Video in RealVideo” section. I just listened to Fr Mitch Pacwa. After the topic of the Russian Orthodox orchestral concert that will be performed at the Vatican this weekend, he talks to a priest about Divine Mercy Sunday. (About 8 minutes in)

The point is that, having fulfilled the Divine Mercy requirements, the floodgates of God are open on the Feast Day and miracles happen. The priest talked about praying all that Sunday one year for his father’s return to the Sacraments. He had been away for a very long time. That evening his mother phoned and told him his father had gone to Confession that day.

Fr Michael Gately, he says some bishop said it is sufficient to go to Confession during Lent.

Guess what I am going to spend Divine Mercy Sunday doing? I have so many family members to pray for.
 
LilyM said:
Because so few parishes (at least around here) do have Confessions on Sundays, which includes Divine Mercy Sunday …
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Last year our Pastor made an exception for Divine Mercy Sunday - and he’s not even really that big on hearing Confessions, so maybe there is a directive out there, telling priests to make themselves available to hear Confessions that day.
 
Mordocai said:
As I understand it
JPII instituted a plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday which follows under the normal conditions
HOWEVER, Our Lord offers the grace of what could be thought of as another baptism - complete remission of sin and temporal punishment - to those who go to confession, receive the Eucharist at Mass that Sunday, and venerate the image and recite the chaplet in public (or whatever the criteria are, maybe in private 🙂 )

Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge Massachusetts would know, google them and look at their website.
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And one must do acts of mercy during the Easter season. And do the chaplet Novena which begins on Good Friday.
 
maryj said:
And one must do acts of mercy during the Easter season. And do the chaplet Novena which begins on Good Friday.
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For the enlightenment of a novena newbie, would that be recitation of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day starting on Good Friday?

DaveBj
 
DaveBj said:
For the enlightenment of a novena newbie, would that be recitation of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day starting on Good Friday?

DaveBj
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Hi Dave, From the Divine Mercy Devotional: Prayers for the Novena
It is greatly recommended that the following novena intentions and prayers be said togethar with the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, Since our Lord specifically asked for a novena of Chaplets, especially during the feast of Mercy.
Here is the Novena prayers, Good luck and God Bless
catholicity.com/prayer/divinemercy.html
 
Check with your local diocese- there may be a Divine Mercy program somewhere in the diocese. At one of our churches, they are having confession, then chaplet, and veneration of the image. They are also having a brief prayer meeting each evening during the week leading up to DM Sunday.
 
I don’t exactly get why Divine Mercy Sunday is so special in terms of spiritual benefit. From what I gather, the benefits of Divine Mercy Sunday (plenary indulgences) are available every single day of the year through other prescribed works given in the Enchiridion.
 
With a plenary indulgence you must have no attachment to any sin, even venial ones you commit. Most people probably only receive a partial instead of the plenary indulgence.

“To acquire a plenary indulgence, it is necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to fulfill the following three conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, and prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff. It is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be absent.”

That can be very hard. We all have venial sins that are hard to get rid of. Mild swear words, or expletives, spiritual sloth, doing unnecessary work on Sunday, etc…

Remember the story told of St. Philip Neri wh owas preaching a jubilee indulgence in a crowed church when a revelation was given to him that only two people in the church were actually getting it, an old char-woman and the saint himself?

Divine Mercy is similar to Baptism in that it washes away ALL sin and punishment due to that sin, even if we are still attached to some venial sin.
 
(or whatever the criteria are, maybe in private 🙂 )

okay this is my problem. knowone is really sure what the criteria is exactly. can anyone say from an athortative source for those here me included what the criteria actually is exactly so then we will all know.
 
scaron said:
I thought the rule around indulgences was “within 8 days”. Not sure where I picked that up, but I thought that was the rule.
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I thought it was within 8 days BEFORE also. (but not afterward.) I just did a Consecration and it was within 8 days before. But I seem to remember hearing something about Divine Mercy Sunday as Confession was to be just before it—not sure if that means the day of or can be done before the vigil the night before it.
Ravyn
 
From my booklet: Devotion to the Divine Mercy:

Confession and communion on the day. If confession is not available on the day, it should be as close to the day as possible. St. Faustina made it on the Saturday before the Feast. Communion, as always, should be a worthy one and must be accompanied by complete Trust in Divine Mercy. (II.138) (III.1109)

For the purpose of obtaining an indulgence, I understand that the current norm is that a sacramental confession is ‘good’ for 21 days following assuming, of course, that you don’t commit any mortal sins.

catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/question-what-are-plenary-indulgences/

It is recommended that the Communion be received at Mass on the same day that the indulgence is earned. Reconciliation may be within a prudent period before or after the act (typically, one week, though during the Great Jubilee, the Vatican specifically allowed confession within three weeks of the act).

I don’t know if this was only for the Great Jubilee or if this has continued.
 
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