For What It's Worth by Erin

Jesus’ Divine Mercy…Let’s imagine Jesus, appearing to a simple Polish girl. Let’s imagine that those revelations have spread to influence Catholics everywhere, because they have and they did!

How so? Jesus’ revelations to Faustina flood onto the pages of her simple journal and diary. A simple soul, called by her superiors in her convent as nothing
special, became a way for Jesus to lead us into His passion and death as a way to bring salvation to the whole world. Isn’t that what Jesus did on the cross for all humanity?

Concealed within that simple soul’s life, was the hidden life of a mystic. Her divine revelation introduced a way for you and me to offer “Jesus’ sorrowful passion” as we ask God to have mercy on us and on the whole world. But how can you and I coherently do that?  WE CAN’T, but God can! And here is how. He allows us to do that by first allowing us to offer and use the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. “For what?”, you ask. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. Oh, is that all!

Let’s let that sink in a moment. Not only did he give us a “How”, He gave us a divinely inspired picture that even someone simple like me can understand, along with written instructions on what to do next: “Jesus, I Trust in You!” This Divine Mercy Sunday, let’s learn more about this simple soul, and a devotion handed down by Jesus himself. Like any Catholic devotion, we don’t have to believe, but based on the fruit of it, why wouldn’t we want to?
 

1. Make the Sign of the Cross


2. Pray an Our Father, Hail Mary, and The Apostle’s Creed using the first three beads


3. For each of the Five Decades:
   1. On the Our Father beads say:
      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.
   
   
   2. On the Hail Mary beads say:
      For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
4. Conclude by repeating this prayer 3 times:
   Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole word.