The devotion to the Divine Mercy, consists of a set of prayers generally prayed with the help of a rosary, although they can easily be done without it because of its simplicity.
Jesus appears to St. Faustina on September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, to teach her the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
Sor Faustina Kowalska, recibió el mensaje de la misericordia de Dios de una visión que tuvo en 1935. La Santa recogió la visión en su diario. Y poco a poco comenzó a difundir la prayer that Jesus himself taught him.
It asks for trust in God and an attitude of mercy towards our neighbor. The prayer calls to proclaim and pray for Divine Mercy for the world.
"When you pray this Tertius with the dying, I will stand between the Father and the dying soul, not as a just Judge, but as a Merciful Savior." Diary of Saint Faustina
With these words we see, once again, how Jesus comes to meet us again and again. In his infinite love we see throughout history how he fulfills this promise to stay with us until the end.
Devotion to the Divine Mercy grew very rapidly after the beatification (April 18, 1993) and canonization (April 30, 2000) of Sister Faustina and also due to the pilgrimages of Pope John Paul II to Lagiewniki (1997 and 2002).
When Pope John Paul II canonized St. Faustina in 2000, during the ceremony he declared: "It is therefore important that we fully embrace the message transmitted to us by the Word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which will henceforth be known throughout the Church as Divine Mercy Sunday. Homily, April 30, 2000.
Both Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have recommended this devotion.
"Encourage people to say the Chaplet I have given you (...) Whoever recites it will receive great mercy at the hour of death. Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last refuge of salvation. Even if the most hardened sinner has recited this Chaplet at least once, he will receive the grace of My infinite Mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those who trust in My Mercy."
Diary of Saint Faustina
Guía para recitar la Coronilla.
The recitation of the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy is preceded by two prayers taken from the Diary of St. Faustina and followed by a final prayer.
To recite the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, use a normal Rosary and follow this sequence
With a common 5-decade rosary in hand, we begin this chaplet:
The sign of the Cross
Our Father
Ave Maria
Credo
The first three beads of the Rosary can be used for this part.
At each major grain of the Rosary, where we usually pray the Our Father, we will pray the following prayer:
Eternal Father,
I offer you
the Body, the Blood,
Soul and Divinity
of Your most beloved Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
as propitiation
of our sins
and those of the entire world.
At each minor grain of the Rosary, where we usually pray the Hail Mary, we will say the following prayer:
For His painful Passion,
have mercy on us
and the whole world.
We will repeat this during the 5 decades of the rosary.
At the end of the 5 decades of the rosary, with the aforementioned prayers, we will recite the following final prayer three times in a row
Holy God,
Santo Fuerte,
Immortal Saint,
have mercy on us
and the whole world.
O Eternal God, in whom mercy is infinite and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, turn to us Thy gracious gaze and increase Thy mercy in us, so that in difficult times we may not despair or become discouraged, but with great confidence submit to Thy holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
Amen.
We conclude with the sign of the Cross: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Santa Faustina Kowalska con la imagen de la Divina Misericordia. Es una imagen extraordinaria, no sólo por ser tan conocida en tantos países. Jesús se apareció a santa Faustina mostrándose según aparece en la imagen cuando ella se encontraba en su celda, en el convento de la Congregación las Hermanas de la Madre de Dios de la Misericordia, en Plock, el 22 de febrero de 1931. Allí Jesús le pidió que pintara esta imagen.
This Chaplet can be prayed at any time, but our Lord specifically asked that it be recited in the form of a novena, in a special way, during the nine days preceding the Feast of Mercy.
Sobre esta novena, el Señor dijo a santa Faustina: durante este novenario concederé a las almas toda clase de gracias. Diary of Saint Faustina
Podemos rezar esta novena por nuestras propias intenciones particulares o podemos ofrecerlas junto con la Novena por las intenciones diarias dictadas por nuestro Señor a Santa Faustina.
If we pray with confidence the novena that Jesus asked of Sister Faustina, we will be able to obtain, by virtue of the confidence we have, graces, since there is a concrete promise linked to the prayer of the novena.
Bibliography:
Opusdei.org
santafaustina.es
