Divine Mercy Sunday

Thursday, April 21st, 2022

Sunday of Divine Mercy

April 24, 2022

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.

Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet

(using ordinary Rosary Beads)

  1. Make the Sign of the Cross.
  2. 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!
  3. Pray an Our Father.
  4. Pray a Hail Mary.
  5. Pray the Apostles’ Creed.
  6. 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.
  7. On the Hail Mary beads, pray: For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
  8. Repeat for the five decades.
  9. Repeat three times: Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
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