Faithful observe feast instituted at the canonization of St. Faustina

By The Catholic Week
MOBILE — Hundreds attended the Divine Mercy Sunday outdoor celebration at Visitation Monastery in Mobile on April 16. Fr. Norbert Jurek, chaplain of the Catholic Student Association at the University of South Alabama was this year's celebrant.
Divine Mercy Sunday takes place the Sunday after Easter each year. Divine Mercy Sunday was first announced in an April 2000 homily given by John Paul II for the Mass celebrating the canonization of Maria Faustina Kowalska.
St. Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun who received prophetic messages from Christ. 
These messages included revelations about the infinite mercy of God — coined the “divine mercy” — and her obligation to spread the message to the world as recorded in her diary, “Divine Mercy in My Soul.”
Jesus also instructed St. Faustina to have an image of him painted and disseminated along with the words, “Jesus, I trust in you,” to help the faithful come to accept God's mercy.
The late pope said in his homily that “the light of divine mercy, which the Lord in a way wished to return to the world through Sr. Faustina’s charism, will illumine the way for the men and women of the third millennium.”