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The Devine Mercy
On 22 February 1931, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, appeared to Sister Faustina Kowalska in a vision. She saw Jesus clothed in a white garment with His right hand raised in blessing. His left hand was touching His garment in the area of the Heart, from where two large rays came forth, one red and the other pale. She gazed intently at the Lord in silence, her soul filled with awe, but also with great joy.
Publications and Web Sites for The Devine Mercy
The Devine Mercy website
This website is maintained by the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. This site is an excellent source of information about the life of Saint Faustina, her apparitions of Jesus and her role as "Apostle and 'Secretary' of His Mercy, so that she could tell the world about His great message." [from the website]
Please browse this site before our Gathering.
The Devine Mercy Novina
A novena is typically nine days of prayer in preparation of a celebration of a feast day. At the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy Novena is recited perpetually at the Hour of Great Mercy — the three o'clock hour.
The Chaplet can be said anytime, but the Lord specifically asked that it be recited as a novena. He promised, "By this Novena (of Chaplets), I will grant every possible grace to souls."
Saint Faustina recorded the Novina during a retreat she was attending on 1 August 1937
Cor Gathering Prayers and Diary Entries
A PDF file of the program discussion for the Cor Gathering of 13 May. All of the text in this document was extracted from Saint Faustina's Diary, and it is used only for our spiritual formation. For those of you who wish to read her Diary, the links for a free diary as well as a downloadable book (from Amazon) is presented below.
The Devine Mercy Caplet
In 1935, St. Faustina received a vision of an angel sent by God to chastise a certain city. She began to pray for mercy, but her prayers were powerless. Suddenly she saw the Holy Trinity and felt the power of Jesus’ grace within her. At the same time she found herself pleading with God for mercy with words she heard interiorly:
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; for the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us. (Diary, 475)
As she continued saying this inspired prayer, the angel became helpless and could not carry out the deserved punishment (see 474). The next day, as she was entering the chapel, she again heard this interior voice, instructing her how to recite the prayer that our Lord later called "the Chaplet." This time, after "have mercy on us" were added the words "and on the whole world" (476). From then on, she recited this form of prayer almost constantly, offering it especially for the dying.
In subsequent revelations, the Lord made it clear that the Chaplet was not just for her, but for the whole world. He also attached extraordinary promises to its recitation.
The Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska
ST. FAUSTINA’S MISSION. In short, her mission consists in reminding us of the immemorial, but seemingly forgotten, truths of our faith about God’s merciful love for men, and in conveying to us new forms of devotion to The Divine Mercy, the practice of which is to lead to the revival of the spiritual life in the spirit of Christian trust and mercy.
St. Faustina’s Diary, which Jesus Christ ordered her to keep during the last four years of her life, is a kind of journal in which the author recorded current or retrospective events related primarily to the “encounters” of her soul with God. A rigorous, scholarly analysis of her notebooks was necessary to extract from them everything which is considered essential to her mission.
This work was accomplished by an eminent and highly esteemed theologian, the Rev. Professor, Ignacy Rozycki. A brief summary of his scholarly and theological work is published under the title The Divine Mercy: Basic Characteristics of the Divine Mercy Devotion.
After clicking on the link below, click on link on that page for “Full Text of Saint Faustina’s Diary”
From the Congregation of the Sisters of our Lady of Mercy
Purchase the Diary: Kindle Edition
Saint Faustina's diary is available for purchase in a Kindle edition that you can download into your phone or tablet. It is available from Amazon's Kindle Store for $5.99.