Holy Father dies on Divine Mercy Sunday (NZ time)!!

ATeNumquam · #1 Apr 2, '05, 1:50 pm

I realise in the States it isn't yet Divine Mercy Sunday, but here (and in other parts of the world) the day is already several hours old!
He died at 7.37 a.m. (our time). We are 2 hours ahead of Australia, and other countries' times I don't know, but we are about 20 hours ahead of parts of the US.
So - if people all arond the world came "down under" to celebrate the dawning of the new millennium in 2000, because it dawned here first, you too can consider it to be Divine Mercy Sunday, and what more fitting a day for him to go home!!

Someone on these forums dreamt he would die on this feast day!

I was intending to have a sleep-in this morning, but woke with a start at 7.30 a.m. .....

Rest in peace, now, beloved Holy Father!

**Shoshana** · #2 Apr 2, '05, 2:03 pm

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Someone on these forums dreamt he would die on this feast day!

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Hello AT!

It was Marie who dreamed of it...the words have haunted me since....may you have a blessed Divine Mercy day!

Christ is risen...truly He is risen!
Shoshana

Sir Knight · #3 Apr 2, '05, 2:27 pm

CNN is reporting that he died on Saturday at 9:37PM.

Marie · #4 Apr 2, '05, 2:33 pm

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Originally Posted by ATeNumquam

I realise in the States it isn't yet Divine Mercy Sunday, but here (and in other parts of the world) the day is already several hours old!
He died at 7.37 a.m. (our time). We are 2 hours ahead of Australia, and other countries' times I don't know, but we are about 20 hours ahead of parts of the US.
So - if people all arond the world came "down under" to celebrate the dawning of the new millennium in 2000, because it dawned here first, you too can consider it to be Divine Mercy Sunday, and what more fitting a day for him to go home!!

Someone on these forums dreamt he would die on this feast day!

I was intending to have a sleep-in this morning, but woke with a start at 7.30 a.m. .....

Rest in peace, now, beloved Holy Father!

And in Rome...the Divine Mercy Sunday Vigil had already begun.

God is so good. No wnder JPII said he was happy.

What a great grace for him to receive.

Meggie · #5 Apr 2, '05, 2:57 pm

hey Marie...any more dreams?

Marie · #6 Apr 2, '05, 3:07 pm

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hey Marie...any more dreams?

LOL! Only of the great Joy JPII is having right now,as he sit's at the feet of Our Lord, and drinks the wine of new life in His kingdom. The joy of being forever in the presence of the God he has loved so much during his life on earth. The joy of being a true son of God and child of Mary.

The wonders he is seeing now that he no longer must peer into eternity, through the veil which divides us from our Precious Lord.

I can almost hear the angels singing and John Paul joining in..."Glory to God in the Highest, and peace to His people on earth."

Ann Cheryl · #7 Apr 2, '05, 3:31 pm

He died first Saturday Rome time.

Fergal · #8 Apr 2, '05, 3:47 pm

Tremendous significance for Fatima devotees that Our Holy Father was taken home on a day set apart in honour of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

He wore the Brown Scapular for many years. If the sabbatine privilage is effected, Our Holy Father is surely straight to Heaven.

I will miss him so much.

Marie · #9 Apr 2, '05, 3:54 pm

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He died first Saturday Rome time.

Indeed! Abba Father pulled out all stops for JP! What a marvelous death God planned for His servant. It doesn't get any better than that.

Fox · #10 Apr 2, '05, 4:08 pm

He died after Vespers and in the Catholic feast days Divine Mercy started at dusk so technically he died on the Divine Mercy day.

(Joshua) · #11 Apr 2, '05, 4:39 pm

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Originally Posted by ATeNumquam

Someone on these forums dreamt he would die on this feast day!

I was intending to have a sleep-in this morning, but woke with a start at 7.30 a.m. .....

Rest in peace, now, beloved Holy Father!

Marie said it, but she said Divine Mercy Sunday, as a dreamer myself, it doesn't matter, John Paul is in Heaven.

**Edwin1961** · #12 Apr 2, '05, 4:51 pm

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Originally Posted by Fox

He died after Vespers and in the Catholic feast days Divine Mercy started at dusk so technically he died on the Divine Mercy day.

Most true!
With our world, we look at Midnight as the start of the day, but look in Genesis...it says. 'There was night and day, the second day." In the Eastern Catholic Church, we follow the sundown to sundown 24 hour period.

Fox · #13 Apr 2, '05, 5:10 pm

So he saw first Saturday and Divine Mercy! God is truly great! He gave His steward another blessing before he left us. Beautiful! He knew how much Divine Mercy meant to him.

**Annunciata** · #14 Apr 2, '05, 5:21 pm

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Originally Posted by Marie

LOL! Only of the great Joy JPII is having right now,as he sit's at the feet of Our Lord, and drinks the wine of new life in His kingdom. The joy of being forever in the presence of the God he has loved so much during his life on earth. The joy of being a true son of God and child of Mary.

The wonders he is seeing now that he no longer must peer into eternity, through the veil which divides us from our Precious Lord.

I can almost hear the angels singing and John Paul joining in..."Glory to God in the Highest, and peace to His people on earth."

How beautiful...and your dream was right on the mark too!
Divine Mercy Sunday, First Saturday and within the Octave of Easter! Does it get any better!

Marie · #15 Apr 2, '05, 5:48 pm

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How beautiful...and your dream was right on the mark too!
Divine Mercy Sunday, First Saturday and within the Octave of Easter! Does it get any better!

God is good! When He loves someone He does it up right! He could not make it any plainer than that.

Pope Dies on Vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday

Feast Establish by John Paul II

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II's final days coincided with the Church's preparation to celebrate the feast he described as flowing from Christ's "most profound mercy," and which he himself established.

John Paul II designated the second Sunday of Easter to be Divine Mercy Sunday in a surprise announcement at the canonization of Sister Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938). The Polish nun, beatified in 1993, and canonized in 2000, on the second Sunday of Easter, began the spiritual movement of Divine Mercy.

The feast, said the Holy Father, "is a perpetual invitation to the Christian world to address, with trust in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that await the human race in the coming years."

The essence of St. Faustina's mission was to proclaim God's mercy toward every human being. Her spiritual legacy to the Church is devotion to Divine Mercy, inspired by a vision in which Jesus himself asked that a painting be made of his image with the invocation "Jesus, I trust in you" appearing below. She commissioned the painting in 1935.

Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, then Archbishop of Krakow, began Sister Faustina's process of beatification.

On Aug. 17, 2003, John Paul II entrusted the world to Divine Mercy when he dedicated the new shrine of Lagiewniki, a suburb of Krakow, located next to the convent where St. Faustina Kowalska lived and died.