Ninth Day
Join #MundAlum Father Angelbert Chikere ’20 (Diocese of San Jose) in praying today’s Divine Mercy Chaplet.
We begin the Novena with the intention Jesus told St. Faustina to pray for today:
“Today bring to Me souls who have become lukewarm, and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: ‘Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.’ For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy.
Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls, who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.” (St. Faustina’s Diary, 1228-1229)
See below for the video and how to recite the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
How to Recite the Chaplet
(on ordinary Rosary beads)
Make the Sign of the Cross
- The Our Father
- The Hail Mary
- The Apostles’ Creed
On the large bead before each decade:
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 10 small beads of each decade:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion,
have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Concluding Doxology: (after five decades)
Holy God,
Holy Mighty One,
Holy Immortal One,
have mercy on us and on the whole world.
(three times)
Optional Concluding Prayer:
Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
