Category: Divine Mercy

CATHOLIC PRAYER & MUSIC VIDEO: Divine Mercy Chaplet in Song

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The Divine Mercy Chaplet in song, produced by Trish Short, and featuring scenes from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. More details follow below the video.

The primary prayers of the Divine Mercy Chaplet include:

Opening Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Hail Mary, The Apostles Creed …

Utilizing a Rosary, on each large bead starting a decade:
“Eternal Father, we offer You the Body, 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 each of the ten small beads within a decade:
“For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion … have Mercy on us, and on the whole world.”

Concluding prayer:
“Holy God, Holy Might One, Holy Immortal One, have Mercy on us, and on the whole world.” (three times)

There are some additional optional prayers, and a closing Sign of the Cross

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “APOSTOLIC PENITENTIARY DECREE: Indulgences attached to devotions in honour of Divine Mercy” – VaticanVa

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“… Duty of honouring Divine Mercy: The faithful with deep spiritual affection are drawn to commemorate the mysteries of divine pardon and to celebrate them devoutly. They clearly understand the supreme benefit, indeed the duty, that the People of God have to praise Divine Mercy with special prayers and, at the same time, they realize that by gratefully performing the works required and satisfying the necessary conditions, they can obtain spiritual benefits that derive from the Treasury of the Church. “The paschal mystery is the culmination of this revealing and effecting of mercy, which is able to justify man, to restore justice in the sense of that salvific order which God willed from the beginning in man, and through man, in the world” (Encyclical Letter Dives in misericordia, n. 7). …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “DIVES IN MISERICORDIA” – Divine Mercy Encyclical by Saint John Paul II – VaticanVa

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“It is ‘#God, who is rich in #mercy’ Whom #Jesus #Christ has revealed to us as Father: it is His very Son who, in Himself, has manifested Him and made Him known to us. Memorable in this regard is the moment when Philip, one of the twelve Apostles, turned to Christ and said: ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied’; and Jesus replied: ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me…? He who has seen me has seen the Father.’ These words were spoken during the farewell discourse at the end of the paschal supper, which was followed by the events of those holy days during which confirmation was to be given once and for all of the fact that ‘God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.’ …”

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