Peace is the first gift of the resurrected Jesus, says Washington, D.C., nun
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Divine Mercy Sunday is the first Sunday after Easter, and it celebrates the unfathomable mercy of Jesus Christ, a D.C.-based religious sister told Fox News Digital.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus prepares those on Earth to carry out his holy mission: "Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained’" (John 20:21-23). Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
The verse from John "vividly portrays the merciful Jesus who we see on the image of Divine Mercy," Sister Donata Farbaniec, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, a religious order founded in her native Poland, told Fox News Digital.