By Olivia Obijiaku
Rev Kinsley Agu, MSP, was the homilist at the Mass of Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he urged the faithful to make the most of God’s boundless mercy.
The deacon who noted that everyone is in need of divine mercy, implored parishioners to extend mercy to others and to reconcile with them. He added that, Divine Mercy is celebration of new life in Christ – a life that can be sustained by the grace and mercy of God.
“We all need to be healed.” Rev Agu told them. “God sent Jesus to heal humanity from our fallen state due to sin and to reconcile the world back to God. Let us always seek the intercession of Our Lady Mother of Mercy. Do not tell yourself that it is not expedient to approach God’s mercy in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It is the sacrament of healing.”
“We celebrate today, our enduring and sustained access to God’s love. We celebrate our mission to be dispensers of God’s mercy. We who have experienced God’s blessings should be the channels through which others will experience mercy and reconciliation. Let us always ascribe to God’s mercy, my dear friends, for we cannot run this heavenly race without it. God’s mercy is like the air we breathe.”
“God’s mercy is wide and is always flowing like a river, as St Maria Faustina describes it, calling on everyone to plunge themselves into it – into the waters of rebirth and the blood of reconciliation again and again. Let us always be confident in pleading God’s mercy over our lives, studies, families, when we step out of rooms. Let God’s mercy appear for you to speak for you, against principalities and powers in high places.”
Rev Agu catechized that the work, power and commission of healing and reconciling the world to God until the second coming of Jesus Christ continue, in the ministry of the ordained ministers through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. us always seek the intercession of Our Lady Mother of Mercy. Do not tell yourself that it is not expedient to approach God’s mercy in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It is the sacrament of healing.”
“We celebrate today, our enduring and sustained access to God’s love. We celebrate our mission to be dispensers of God’s mercy. We who have experienced God’s blessings should be the channels through which others will experience mercy and reconciliation. Let us always ascribe to God’s mercy, my dear friends, for we cannot run this heavenly race without it. God’s mercy is like the air we breathe.”
“God’s mercy is wide and is always flowing like a river, as St Maria Faustina describes it, calling on everyone to plunge themselves into it – into the waters of rebirth and the blood of reconciliation again and again. Let us always be confident in pleading God’s mercy over our lives, studies, families, when we step out of rooms. Let God’s mercy appear for you to speak for you, against principalities and powers in high places.”
Rev Agu catechized that the work, power and commission of healing and reconciling the world to God until the second coming of Jesus Christ continue, in the ministry of the ordained ministers through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
