His Mercy Endures Forever
“‘Lord, have mercy,’ we pray at the beginning of Mass, calling upon the Lord to have mercy on us in our sinfulness. Today we celebrate that divine mercy, the mercy that is stronger than any fault, any wrong, any sin, the mercy that always seeks to reconcile us with the Lord, the mercy that led God to send the Son to win us our salvation. Let us rejoice that we are always able to receive that tender mercy.” SOURCE: Pastoral Patterns, Summer 2021
In the 1930s, Jesus chose a humble Polish nun, Maria Faustina Kowalska, to receive private revelations concerning Divine Mercy that were recorded in her diary. St. Faustina’s diary records 14 occasions when Jesus requested that a Feast of Mercy (Divine Mercy Sunday) be observed. On May 5, 2000, five days after the canonization of St. Faustina, the Vatican decreed that the Second Sunday of Easter would henceforth be known as Divine Mercy Sunday. SOURCE: www.usccb.org
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Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet
(using ordinary Rosary Beads)
- Make the Sign of the Cross.
- Repeat three times: O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You!
- Pray an Our Father.
- Pray a Hail Mary.
- Pray the Apostles’ Creed.
- On the Our Father beads, pray: Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
- On the Hail Mary beads, pray: For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
- Repeat for the five decades.
- Repeat three times: Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world. SOURCE: www.thedivinemercy.org