Eastern/Oriental Divine Mercy Sunday?

[Lester_S]

No, not at all. But the feast of Divine Mercy is to emphasize and pay special attention to the mercy of God. It is something that is emphasized liturgically in every Divine Liturgy in the same way that it is emphasized while praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, with nearly the same words. As Constantine pointed out, we pray a Divine Mercy chaplet within every Divine Liturgy.

thank you.

 

[Lester_S]

I don’t think that’s the issue at hand. I think the issue at hand is twofold:

1. Does the Roman Pontiff have the authority to insert a feast into the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Catholic Churches?
2. Did John Paul II intend to do that when he established that the Feast of Mercy should be observed in “the universal Church”?

The answer is certainly yes to the first, so it remains to find an answer to the second.

we’re still on this? Either way, I came to peace, on the subject, thanks to Fr. Loya’s talk on it. I think it’s a good complementary explanation. At the same time, based on the hymnography, it’s not that stressed. We do say lord have mercy, not just in liturgy, but in every prayer we do at home.

If I were to count the lord have mercies, done after the kontakion for the hours, it’s already 160 times. And this isn’t counting the 24, for morning prayers, 24 for evening prayers; and so on.

 

[Vico]

I don’t think that’s the issue at hand. I think the issue at hand is twofold:

1. Does the Roman Pontiff have the authority to insert a feast into the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Catholic Churches?
2. Did John Paul II intend to do that when he established that the Feast of Mercy should be observed in “the universal Church”?

The answer is certainly yes to the first, so it remains to find an answer to the second.

The decree issued on May 5, 2000, by the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and The Discipline of the Sacraments
Decree Establishing the Sunday after Easter 'Divine Mercy Sunday’

Merciful and gracious is the Lord (Ps 111:4), who out of the great love with which he loved us (Eph 2:4) and with unspeakable goodness, gave us his Only-begotten Son as our Redeemer, so that through the Death and Resurrection of this Son he might open the way to eternal life for the human race, and that the adopted children who receive his mercy within his temple might lift up his praise to the ends of the earth.

In our times, the Christian faithful in many parts of the world wish to praise that divine mercy in divine worship, particularly in the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, in which God’s loving kindness especially shines forth.

Acceding to these wishes, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II has graciously determined that in the Roman Missal, after the title “Second Sunday of Easter”, there shall henceforth be added the appellation “(or Divine Mercy Sunday”), and has prescribed that the texts assigned for that day in the same Missal and the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite are always to be used for the liturgical celebration of this Sunday.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments now publishes these decisions of the Supreme Pontiff so that they may take effect.

Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

From the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 5 May 2000.

 

[aemcpa]

The decree issued on May 5, 2000, by the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and The Discipline of the Sacraments
Decree Establishing the Sunday after Easter 'Divine Mercy Sunday’

Merciful and gracious is the Lord (Ps 111:4), who out of the great love with which he loved us (Eph 2:4) and with unspeakable goodness, gave us his Only-begotten Son as our Redeemer, so that through the Death and Resurrection of this Son he might open the way to eternal life for the human race, and that the adopted children who receive his mercy within his temple might lift up his praise to the ends of the earth.

In our times, the Christian faithful in many parts of the world wish to praise that divine mercy in divine worship, particularly in the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, in which God’s loving kindness especially shines forth.

Acceding to these wishes, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II has graciously determined that in the Roman Missal, after the title “Second Sunday of Easter”, there shall henceforth be added the appellation “(or Divine Mercy Sunday”), and has prescribed that the texts assigned for that day in the same Missal and the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite are always to be used for the liturgical celebration of this Sunday.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments now publishes these decisions of the Supreme Pontiff so that they may take effect.

Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

From the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 5 May 2000.

Thanks. I kept looking for this and could only find the 2002 decree regarding the indulgence.

Done and done.

/thread

 

[jwinch2]

The decree issued on May 5, 2000, by the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and The Discipline of the Sacraments
Decree Establishing the Sunday after Easter 'Divine Mercy Sunday’

Merciful and gracious is the Lord (Ps 111:4), who out of the great love with which he loved us (Eph 2:4) and with unspeakable goodness, gave us his Only-begotten Son as our Redeemer, so that through the Death and Resurrection of this Son he might open the way to eternal life for the human race, and that the adopted children who receive his mercy within his temple might lift up his praise to the ends of the earth.

In our times, the Christian faithful in many parts of the world wish to praise that divine mercy in divine worship, particularly in the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, in which God’s loving kindness especially shines forth.

Acceding to these wishes, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II has graciously determined that in the Roman Missal, after the title “Second Sunday of Easter”, there shall henceforth be added the appellation “(or Divine Mercy Sunday”), and has prescribed that the texts assigned for that day in the same Missal and the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite are always to be used for the liturgical celebration of this Sunday.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments now publishes these decisions of the Supreme Pontiff so that they may take effect.

Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

From the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 5 May 2000.

Good find.

 

[Vico]

Sources:

thedivinemercy.org/message/tradition/pronouncements.php

saints.sqpn.com/stf28002.htm