Divine Mercy Sunday

Meditation for Divine Mercy Sunday: the Octave of Easter

I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple... and all they to whom the water came were saved! (Cf: Ez:47)

A mystic moment captured some time ago courtesy of beautiful stained glass and Brother Sun being in the right place at the right time... a wonderful reminder of the grace and mercy that flows infinitely and unconditionally from the pierced heart of Christ... and that the whole cosmos is teaching us constantly if we are just aware enough, pause long enough, become still enough to notice.

Then we will see that to drink of this water, to be washed in it, to dwell within it as a fish dwells in the flow of the river this is the deepest longing of our hearts and souls as the ancient Easter Chant recalls: 

Vidi aquam egrediéntem de templo, a látere dextro, allelúia: et omnes ad quos pervénit aqua ista salvi facti sunt et dicent: allelúia, allelúia.

Confitémini Dómino, quóniam bonus: quóniam in sæculum misericórdia ejus.

P.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

S.  Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen.

Vidi aquam egrediéntem de templo, a látere dextro, allelúia: et omnes ad quos pervénit aqua ista salvi facti sunt et dicent: allelúia, allelúia.

Here it is in English:

I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, alleluia; and all they to whom that water came were saved, and they shall say, alleluia, alleluia.

Praise the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever. [Psalm 117].

P.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

S.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, alleluia; and all they to whom that water came were saved, and they shall say, alleluia, alleluia.