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Mercy of God Devotion
By Peace | July 5, 2008
This piece of Leaflet was what I had ‘picked’ and what I had found to have some ‘connection’ to my dream.
Since the body is dead, but the spirits still live, and the spirits need our help. The spirits appeared to people, and that is how the truth is passed on….
Mercy of God Devotion
Between 1930 and 1938 Christ, Our Lord, appeared to Sister Faustina, a Sister of Mercy in Poland.
On 22nd February 1931, as Sister Faustina relates the experience,”I saw Jesus dressed in a white garment. He held a hand raised in blessing and with the other, He was touching the garment at the breast. From under the garment came two rays of light, one red, the other pale.” As she knelt motionless, immersed in cross currents of joy and fear, Our Lord spoke,”Paint a picture according to the vision you see and with the inscription “Jesus I Trust In Thee”. I desire that this picture be venerated first in your chapel and then throughout the whole world. The rays on the picture represent the blood and water which gushed forth from the depths of My Mercy when My agonising Heart was opened on the Cross. The pale rays symbolize the water, which justifies the soul; the red rays represent the blood, which is the life of the soul. These rays shield the soul before the wrath of My Father. Fortunate is he who lives in their shelter for the just Hand of God will never reach Him.”
He then gave her a short prayer and told her to recite it often,”O Blood and Water, which has gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in Thee.”
Our Lord asked Sister Faustina to pray and to promote the praying of a Chaplet of Mercy, using the Rosary beads for it. Our Lord, asked especially for a Novena, using the Chaplet, to start on Good Friday, the day of mercy, and to end on the first Sunday of Easter: a feast in honour of His Mercy. This novena could be said at other times.
He gave the intentions for the Novena:
1st day — sinners;
2nd day — souls of priests and nuns;
3rd day — faithful and pious;
4th day — pagans and others ignorant of Him
5th day — separated brethen;
6th day — the humble, meek and children
7th day — those who adore and honour His Mercy;
8th day — souls in Purgatory
9th day — the lukewarm and indifferent
Sister Faustina died on 5th October 1938.
From 1940-1959 the Mercy of God Devotion, based on her reported revelations, spread around the world. The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office ordered it to cease in 1959. But on 15th April 1978, the Sacred Congregation lifted the prohibition — “being now in possession of many original documents, with vastly different circumstances, and on the petition of many of the Polish Bishops.”
The devotion has a powerful meaning for our times.
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