Besides holiness and nature, mercy is another fundamental nature of God. God’s mercy is inexhaustible and unfathomable. Jesus Christ is the face of God’s mercy among us. This is why the feast or devotion to the Divine Mercy is one of the revelatory feasts of God himself to us.
Christianity: our lives, testimonies and faith are marked by the power of Christ’s resurrection. The power of the resurrection above sins and its consequence: death. It is also the power over the forces of evil, spirits or demons, and the Devil.
Liturgically, Palm Sunday commemorates or re-enacts the courage of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. A historical and bold entry that eventually leads to his passion, death and resurrection. It is not only a fulfilment of the plan or will of God the Father, as Jesus himself indicated to us. It is a demonstration of the love of God to save us at all costs from slavery to sin and Satan.
In the story of the woman caught in adultery, we encounter the loving visible face of God’s mercy in Jesus Christ. This changes our image and concepts of God in Christianity from a God who seeks to destroy or punish us for our sins to a God who hates our sins but loves and cherishes us poor sinners.