Novena to Divine Mercy
"On
each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a
different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My
mercy ... You will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the
graces for these souls."
Click on each day for links to prayers:
DAY 1 (Good Fri.) All mankind,and poor sinners.
DAY 2 (Holy Sat.) Priests and religious souls
DAY 3 (Easter Sun.) Devout
and faithful souls
DAY 4 (Easter Mon.) Souls with no faith
DAY 5 (Easter Tues.) Separated brethren
DAY 6 (Easter
Wed) Meek, humble and Children
DAY 7 (Easter Thurs) Souls who venerate my mercy
DAY 8 (Easter
Fri.) Souls who are in purgatory
DAY 9 (Easter Sat.) Lukewarm Souls
The Chaplet
of Divine Mercy The Chaplet
can be said at any time, but the Lord specifically asked that it be prayed as a
novena, especially on the nine days before the Feast of the Divine Mercy
starting on Good Friday. And He promised: “By this Novena of Chaplets I will
grant every possible grace to souls” (Diary
of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska 796).
Remember to pray
the Regina Caeli (Queen of Heaven) from Easter Sunday until noon on the
Saturday before Pentecost Instead
of praying the Angelus during the Easter Season --See end of post for prayer and Gregorian Chant
The
Spark from Poland that will
Prepare World for My Final Coming We are all worried about our country and concerns for its economy and for the erosion of our religious freedoms. St. Faustina also worried and prayed for Poland: "Jesus, I beg You for my homeland; protect it against the assaults of its enemies" (Diary of St. Faustina, 119).
Jesus responded to St. Faustina as she prayed:
"I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to My will, I will exalt her in might and holiness. From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world for My final coming" (Diary, 1732).
At the time it seemed as though this prayer of hers
had failed. Poland was conquered,
fractured by the Nazi regime and later she was swallowed up by Communism. It seemed her prayer to Our Lord was not answered. However, the beginning of the answer to her prayer and Poland’s deliverance from Communism began on October 16,
1978. Cardinal
Karol Wojtyła, Archbishop of Kraków was elected Pope, taking the name John Paul II.
This event had an electrifying unifying effect for Poland. Even under Communist rule, Poland was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe. The election of a Polish pope the spark from Poland (Diary, 1732). was the beginning of her political freedom. God has honored Poland by lighting on her soil “the spark" giving us Bl. John Paul II who traversed the entire globe building up the kingdom of God so that it was preached in every land and nation!
This event had an electrifying unifying effect for Poland. Even under Communist rule, Poland was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe. The election of a Polish pope the spark from Poland (Diary, 1732). was the beginning of her political freedom. God has honored Poland by lighting on her soil “the spark" giving us Bl. John Paul II who traversed the entire globe building up the kingdom of God so that it was preached in every land and nation!
Divine
Mercy and the End Time
The exact timing is the Lord's But of that day and hour no one knows, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone Mat. 24:36 It seems that we have reached a certain critical phase of the end times that had its beginnings with the Church.
The exact timing is the Lord's But of that day and hour no one knows, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone Mat. 24:36 It seems that we have reached a certain critical phase of the end times that had its beginnings with the Church.
Pope John Paul II alluded at the consecration of
the Shrine of Merciful Love in 1981 making note of the "special task" assigned to him
by God" in the present situation of man, the Church and the world." He urged us "to implore God's mercy for
humanity in this hour of history ... to beg for it at this difficult, critical
phase of the history of the Church and of the world as we approach the end of
the second millennium." (Rich
in Mercy 15)
It's ironic that many of the most religious people of Christ's time who were actively practicing their religion and even though they awaited the promised Messiah they were not able to recognize Him when He came. They even condemned him to death on the cross. The Pharisees, devoted to their rules, and rituals that over the years, had become so important that their real meaning had been lost. They talked a lot of about God, but none of it had touched their hearts. They were not living the way He wanted them to live. “This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me" (Is 29:13).
Mary Mother of Mercy
Mary Mother of all graces and Mother of Divine Mercy, Defend us from our enemies and receive us at the hour of our death. O Mary Mother of Mercy, Implore for us the Mercy of your Son!
Our Lady also spoke to St. Faustina: “You have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but as a just Judge. Oh how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for granting mercy. (Diary635).
The Words of the Our Lady to St Faustina are similar to the Fatima Message. There is a sense urgency in them. Like the message of Fatima, it is the same urgency of the Gospel, "The time is accomplished, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.”Mark1:15
"If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
Our Lady also spoke to St. Faustina: “You have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but as a just Judge. Oh how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for granting mercy. (Diary635).
The Words of the Our Lady to St Faustina are similar to the Fatima Message. There is a sense urgency in them. Like the message of Fatima, it is the same urgency of the Gospel, "The time is accomplished, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.”Mark1:15
"If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
Our Real Enemy is Sin Within us!
Are we not faced with a similar circumstances as we await the final coming of the Lord? Paul writes in second Thessalonians: “The coming of the lawless one whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. In order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in wickedness" 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
The Church's Final Trial
675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”Read more: Catechism of the Catholic Church and the last days
Unceasingly
the Church Implores
God's Mercy for Everyone!
God's Mercy for Everyone!
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| April 30, 2000 View of St. Peter's Square Institution of Feast of Divine Mercy |
Speak to the world about My mercy
... It is a sign for the end times. After it will come the Day of Justice.
While there is still time, let them have recourse to the fountain of My mercy.(Diary
848) Read
more
Words of
Blessed John Paul II: “At no time and in no historical period -- especially at
a moment as critical as our own -- can the Church forget the prayer that is a
cry for the mercy of God amid the many forms of evil which weigh upon humanity
and threaten it. "The more the human conscience succumbs to
secularization, loses its sense of the very meaning of the word "mercy,"
moves away from God, and distances itself from the mystery of mercy, the more
the Church has the right and the duty to appeal to the God of mercy with loud
cries!” June 7, 1977 Divine Mercy Shrine in Lagiewniki, Poland .(Dives in Misericordia, n. 15).
The Regina Caeli
Remember to pray
the Regina Caeli (Queen of Heaven) from Easter Sunday until noon on the
Saturday before Pentecost Instead
of praying the Angelus during the Easter Season
The Regina Caeli (Queen of Heaven)
V/. Queen of Heaven, rejoice. Alleluia.
R/. For He whom you did merit to bear. Alleluia.
V/. Has risen as He said Alleluia
R/. Pray for us to God. Alleluia.
V/. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary. Alleluia
R/. For the Lord has truly risen. Alleluia.
V. LET US PRAY.
R. O God, Who by the Resurrection of Your Son, Our Lord Jesus
Christ, have been pleased to fill the world with joy, grant, we beseech You,
that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may receive
the joys of eternal life, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
