Jesus I Trust in You!
My favorite novena starts tomorrow on Good Friday and ends nine days later on Divine Mercy Sunday. Each day you read a specific prayer and then say the Divine Mercy chaplet which takes only about ten minutes. It is a powerful chaplet, especially for souls at the hour of their death.
This novena and a thorough explanation can be accessed at: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm.
My husband, Greg, and I have done this novena together since we started dating nine years ago. Each year we pick a different intention and pray the Novena together. One year we said the Divine Mercy Novena for God’s will on which house to buy and where. The day we completed the Novena we made an offer on a house that was completely out of our price range. The sellers accepted our offer and we ended up saving $40,000 on our new house!
St. Faustina
That’s only a physical manifestation of the power of the Novena. If God can deliver on a physical level, I can only imagine what has taken place on a spiritual level!
The story of how the Divine Mercy Novena came about is truly amazing. Jesus gave the Divine Mercy Novena to one of my favorite saints, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska (1905 – 1938 . Jesus appeared to her in many times and asked her to write a diary which was later made into the book, “Divine Mercy in my Soul Diary.”
It’s not a hell and brimstone book, although she does write about how her Guardian Angel was allowed to take her up spiritually to hell where she saw suffering souls. One thing that I won’t forget about that particular story is that she was shocked at how many physically beautiful people were down in hell, and how many souls were in hell who while on earth didn’t even believe hell existed!
The books is not dark nor guilt ridden. Quite the opposite it is full of hope and mercy. Jesus told St. Faustina that all the sin and evil in the whole world from the time the world began to the time it will end is only a drop in the ocean of Divine Mercy.
“Divine Mercy in my Soul Diary” by St. M. Faustina Kowalska. Pick it up. You won’t be able to put it down.
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Hi: blessed Easter week to you!
it’s always refreshing to find folks who have a devotion to the Divine Mercy. We’re fought hard to get it this year since DM Sunday coincides with the beatification of John Paul II- but it’s there!
Next year if you’re looking for a book to get you through Lent- maybe try “The Dolorous Passion” by Catherine Emmerich. It was partly used for the “Passion of the Christ” film script, the Agony in the Garden is quite a powerful chapter and an excellent meditation source. Bless u!
And on a totally unrelated note: we’ve got a batch of limencello brewing right now!