Cardinal Dolan’s Second Sunday of Lent Homily: March 5, 2023
| 03/5/2023
By: Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
In today’s homily, Cardinal Dolan discusses wakes and funerals.
They are sad events, but there are usually photos displayed of the deceased during happy and joyful times.
Cardinal Dolan says that’s kind of what Jesus had in mind at the Transfiguration in today’s Gospel. Jesus knew He would be killed soon.
However, in that time of sorrow and loss, He wanted His followers to remember the joy of the Transfiguration. Jesus knows that life is a mixture of joy and sorrow, life and death and He is there for us for both.
Observed on the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday -- which in 2025 falls on April 27 -- was established in 2000 by St. John Paul II during his canonization of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, a 20th-century Polish mystic.
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Our Sunday Visitor
| 04/25/2025
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