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Mercy’s Wondrous Exchange, by Matthew Walz – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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The first Divine Mercy painting by Eugeniusz Kazimierowski, 1934 [Divine Mercy Sanctuary Vilnius, Lithuania] Source: Wikipedia

By Matthew Walz, The Catholic Thing, April 12, 2026

Matthew Walz will begin serving as President of Thomas More College in New Hampshire this coming September. Currently he is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy & Letters and Pre-Theology Programs at the University of Dallas. He also serves as Director of Intellectual Formation at Holy Trinity Seminary. …

John Paul II died on the night of April 2, 2005. It was Easter Saturday and thus the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday. One could hardly imagine a more fitting moment for him to go to the house of the Father.

Almost five years earlier, on April 30, 2000, after Mass on the Second Sunday of Easter, John Paul told Dr. Valentin Fuster, “This is the happiest day of my life.” He had just canonized St. Faustina Kowalska as the first saint of the new millennium. Dr. Fuster, an accomplished cardiologist and the pope’s friend, had verified the second miracle required for Faustina’s canonization: the healing of a diocesan priest of congestive heart failure. ….

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