Jesus told Saint Faustina that April 12, 2026, would open the doors of mercy to all who ask.
1. Proyecto Misericordia presents a live Divine Mercy Sunday program on April 12, 2026, built around the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, a theological reflection by Father Juan Rivas, and a devotional closing by the host.
2. The host is unnamed in the transcript; Father Juan Rivas is identified as the preacher whose recorded reflection anchors the doctrinal content of the program.
3. The episode's core purpose is to lead Catholic listeners through an experience of Divine Mercy on the liturgical feast that Jesus — in the visions recorded by Saint Faustina Kowalska — asked to be the principal day for receiving total forgiveness of sins.
4. The host explains that four channels of mercy described in Saint Faustina's diary — the three o'clock hour, the Chaplet, the image of the Divine Mercy, and the Sunday of Mercy feast — are all simultaneously available during this broadcast, which he frames as an exceptional devotional opportunity.
5. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy is recited in full: the Apostles' Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and repeated prayers of 'Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood, soul and divinity of your most beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, as propitiation for our sins and the sins of the whole world.'
6. Father Juan Rivas cites Diary entry 699 of Saint Faustina, in which Jesus tells her that on the Sunday of Mercy the soul that confesses and receives communion obtains total forgiveness of guilt and punishment.
7. Father Juan Rivas distinguishes divine justice — which gives each person according to their deeds — from divine mercy, which gives what God's infinite love freely provides, using the phrase from the Book of Jonah: 'You are a clement and merciful God, slow to anger and rich in love.'
8. He illustrates the justice-versus-mercy distinction with an anecdote about a woman who paid $500 for a portrait she disliked, complained it 'did not do her justice,' and was told by the painter she needed mercy, not justice.
9. Father Juan Rivas makes the direct theological argument that Judas sinned against trust — not merely against loyalty — by despairing rather than asking for forgiveness, and asserts that God would have forgiven even Judas if he had gone to the foot of the cross.
10. He uses the 1999 papal visit to Havana as a narrative illustration: a building-scale Sacred Heart image was assembled in the Plaza de la Revolución — a country where carrying a cross was dangerous — and the choir watching the sign's letters appear spontaneously wept when they read 'Jesus Christ, I trust in you.'
11. Father Juan Rivas presents Jonah as the Old Testament image of divine mercy: Jonah is a rebellious prophet who flees God's command, is thrown overboard, survives inside the whale for three days, and prays Psalm 130 ('De profundis') — a symbol Father Juan Rivas connects to Christ's resurrection.
12. He argues that God rescued Jonah not because of Jonah's merits but purely out of mercy, and that Jonah could only later become a credible prophet of mercy because he had personally experienced it first.
13. Jonah's anger at God for sparing Nineveh after its repentance is treated as a recurring human temptation to prefer threats and condemnation over the harder task of proclaiming love and forgiveness.
14. Father Juan Rivas cites Diary entry 1588 of Saint Faustina, in which Jesus says: 'Before I come as the just judge, I open wide the doors of my mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of my mercy must pass through the door of my justice.'
15. He invokes Pope John Paul II's encyclical 'Dives in Misericordia,' quoting its description of mercy as 'the second name of love' and 'an immense capacity of forgiveness.'
16. The host reflects that modern people retain a vague, blurred belief in God but have lost trust in his mercy, leading to despair and suicide — and that recovering that trust is the specific gift of the Divine Mercy feast.
17. The tone throughout is devotional and pastoral — a live Spanish-language radio program addressed directly to listeners, blending communal prayer, storytelling, humour, and theological teaching.
18. Father Juan Rivas's reflection uses accessible analogies and multiple anecdotes (the Havana plaza, the painted portrait, martyrs going to execution) to communicate theology to a popular Catholic audience rather than an academic one.
19. Spanish-speaking Catholic listeners seeking a structured Divine Mercy Sunday prayer program, including the full Chaplet, will find this episode directly useful for the feast day.
20. Listeners who are not Catholic, do not speak Spanish, or are looking for an academic or interreligious treatment of mercy theology will find the content too confessional and devotional.
