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consonant with “all the graces of the Holy Spirit” (Diary, xxiii; CCC, 981, 1373). In the
Scriptures, “water” is symbolic of the Holy Spirit with its “purifying” work in the “Sacraments
of Baptism and Penance” (Diary, xxiii). Also, as the Christians are “baptized by one Spirit,” they
also “drink of one Spirit…the Living Water welling up from Christ crucified (CCC, 694,1088).
The forgiveness of sins is by Christ, who acts in the power of the Holy Spirit, through the
Sacraments of “Baptism, Penance, and the other Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist”
(CCC, 976, 981, 1373). Jesus in the “Eucharistic Species” and the God of Love and Mercy
Himself, feeds the soul (Diary, # 1074, xxiii; CCC, 1088, 1374). The “red ray” is symbolic of
the “Blood of Christ” through which God makes a “New Covenant” with man for the good of his
soul (Diary, xxiii).
There are also links between the Divine Mercy Image and the celebration of the Holy
Mass or the Eucharistic Liturgy on the Feast of Mercy (Divine Mercy Sunday). Among them is
the Gospel of St. John, which is read on that day (Diary, xxii). St. John’s Gospel recalls the
Image of Christ who arose from the dead, and who suddenly emerged amid His disciples in the
Upper Room (Jn 20:19-29). lxxxvii He then granted “peace” to His startled disciples, by forgiving
their sins and for being the “Prince of Peace” Himself (Isa 9:5; Diary, xxii; CCC 2305); lxxxviii but
at the great cost of His life for man’s salvation (Diary, xxii).
The Holy Mass also makes present Christ’s Paschal Mystery or His salvific work through
His “life, death, and resurrection” (CCC, 1409); and the Divine Mercy Image that is publicly
exposed in the church at the time of the Holy Mass, also helps to concretize this Mystery (Diary,
xxii-xxiii). The Divine Mercy Image not only fittingly portrays the “Merciful Savior” Himself; it
also reminds the faithful of Christ’s extreme suffering on Good Friday for love of God and man
(Diary, xxii-xxiii). The two large rays shown in the Divine Mercy Image represent the “Blood
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