Father John writes:

I thank you sincerely for your very generous Easter Offerings: £1,807.!

Today is “Divine Mercy Sunday’

As I have been taking it easy for the last few days after all the Celebrations of Holy Week, so I give some part quotes from Shakespeare below to remind you of his approach to God’s mercy:

The quality of Mercy is not strain’d;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
An earthly power doth then show likest God’s,
When mercy seasons justice.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1.