Reminder- a promise from Christ of an indulgence is granted to anybody who gets confession and at least spiritual communion or better yet the Eucharist (let me know if you know where!) on Divine Mercy Sunday. Fr. Don will be offering confession at 4pm at St. Clare's.
Supreme's version is at:
I ask all Knights to join in this Novena. For my part, I will be posting this daily, with both today's and tomorrow's.
I am using the version from https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/novena
Brother Ken Paulsen also suggests this version:
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/how-to-pray-the-divine-mercy-chaplet/
The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy Novena
Eighth Day:
Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ARE DETAINED IN PURGATORY, and
immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down
their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are
making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief.
Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their
behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually
offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice.
Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring
into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls
who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice.
May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out
the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be
celebrated.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory,
who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the
sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His
most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under
Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds
of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit
to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.
The Chaplet of The
Divine Mercy Novena
Ninth Day:
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.
*To understand who are
the souls designated for this day, and who in the Diary are called 'lukewarm,'
but are also compared to ice and to corpses, we would do well to take note of
the definition that the Savior Himself gave to them when speaking to St.
Faustina about them on one occasion: There are souls who thwart My efforts (1682). Souls
without love or devotion, souls full of egoism and selfishness, proud and
arrogant souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have just
enough warmth to keep themselves alive: My Heart cannot bear this. All the
graces that I pour out upon them flow off them as off the face of a rock. I
cannot stand them because they are neither good nor bad (1702).
