Each Friday Evening, from 6-7 pm at Sts. Martha and Mary, is devoted to the Divine Mercy with a Holy Hour comprising the praying of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and a Mass.
Traditionally, on Good Friday a Novena to the Divine Mercy is begun and continues through to Divine Mercy Sunday which occurs the first Sunday after Easter.
We invite you to explore and learn more about Divine Mercy through the links above and to pray the novena at home. Our own Deacon Alan Amaral has put together below a summary of the Novena and has provided the information contained in the links.
The Chaplet of divine mercy. Where did it come from? It came directly from Jesus to sister Faustina.
On the evening of Friday Septembers 13 1935 Sister Faustina had a vision of an angel, not just any angel, but the executor of divine wrath. The vision is recorded in her diary entry’s 474 to 476. She could see flashes of lighting coming from his hand and they were going fourth to the earth. It was the wrath of God to be sent to a certain place for their sin. Sister Faustina heard in her soul a prayer, as she said it the angel became helpless and could not carry out the just punishment which was rightly due for sins.
The words she prayed where these, “Eternal Farther, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ for our sins and those of the whole world; for the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us.” That is the chaplet of Divine Mercy. Now the next day she entered the Chapel and Jesus again spoke to her, He said He wanted her to say that prayer and it will serve to appease my wrath. And he told her he wanted it prayed on the rosary. He wanted her to start the Chaplet with one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Apostles creed.
Then on our Father beads the words “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.” Then on the Hail Mary beads you pray, “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.” At the end three times we say Holy God, Holy Mighty one, Holy immortal one, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” Jesus gave us this Chaplet with great promises. He told sister Faustina in many other revelations to pray the chaplet for assistance to the dying.
Jesus promised That he will pour many graces on the dying if the chaplet is prayed for them. She also heard within her that if you pray the chaplet at the bedside of the dying, “God’s anger is placated, unfathomable mercy envelops the soul, and the very depths of My tender mercy are moved for the sake of the sorrowful Passion of my son.” Those who recite the chaplet will bring mankind closer to Jesus, bring conversion, and spread Mercy throughout the world.
Jesus also asked that we Pray the chaplet after we say the novena of Divine Mercy which also was given to Sister Faustina from Jesus. Jesus asked her to tell the world he wanted the novena, that Jesus Himself dictated to her, said starting on Good Friday and ending on the eve of Divine Mercy. In diary entry 1209 Jesus said to Sister Faustina, “On each day you will bring to My Heart a different group of souls, and you will immerse them in this ocean of my Mercy, and I will bring all these souls into the house of my Father.”
To receive the promise of complete remission of sin and punishment we must to go to confession, do works of Mercy leading up to Divine Mercy Sunday, then receive the Holy Eucharist on Divine Mercy Sunday. By saying this novena, you are preforming an act of mercy. You see we are praying for different groups of people every day, the first day, all making and especially sinners, the souls of priest and religious, those who don’t believe in God, those separated from the Church. We should be doing other works of mercy also, but this is one.
As I said this novena starts Good Friday, you say the first prayer and then the chaplet of mercy. Please don’t get me wrong it’s not the only time you say these prayers. You can and should say the Chaplet of divine mercy year-round Father JT has adoration every Friday with the chaplet of mercy. You can get the novena on this web page along with direction on how to say the Chaplet of Mercy.
God Bless, Deacon Alan