The Time of Mercy Is Now & We Have a Duty to Receive It, by Suellen Brewster

By Suellen Brewster, Catholic Exchange, April 10, 2026

Suellen Brewster is a wife, mother, and happy revert to the Catholic faith. She helps lead the local Ignatian Exercises and is a member of the Dominican laity. Suellen writes from her home outside of Buffalo, New York, where the long winters invite souls into quiet prayer and reflection.

In paragraph 965 of her Diary, Jesus said to St. Faustina:

Souls perish in spite of My bitter Passion. I am giving them the last hope of salvation; that is, the Feast of My Mercy. If they will not adore My mercy, they will perish for all eternity. Secretary of My mercy, write, tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice is near.

Now that Lent is over, and the Easter season has begun, we can look back and reflect. What did we want to “get” out of Lent? A deeper prayer life? A stronger faith? Freedom from some pattern of sin? These are all noble goals, and the disciplines of Lent—prayer, fasting and almsgiving—will certainly help us achieve them.

Lent ends with the commemoration of the supreme sacrifice Jesus made for us starting in the Garden of Gethsemane and ending on the Cross at Calvary. After Holy Saturday and our vigil at the Tomb, the Holy Triduum ends with the great Easter Vigil amidst rousing tintinnabulation and the foremost Alleluias of the liturgical year. Christ is Risen!  ….