How to Prepare for the Divine Mercy Feast 2024

To prepare for the miraculous feast of Divine Mercy, do the following on Good Friday, March 29:

• Start a Novena to the Divine Mercy, using the Chaplet.
  
  
• Ask Jesus to give you faith to place all of your trust in the Divine Mercy of His Most Sacred Heart.
  
  
• By faithful prayer, open your heart to receive God's Grace, Mercy, Goodness and Kindness. 
  
  

On Sunday, April 7, the Feast of the Divine Mercy:

• Make a good, holy confession.
  It is acceptable to do it seven days before or after the feast. If the Sacrament of Reconciliation with a priest is unavailable due to restrictions or illness, pray an Act of Contrition, with the desire never to sin again. Be contrite and humble as you pray. 
  
  
• Go to Mass and receive Holy Communion.
  If you are unable to attend Mass in person, watch the Vatican's video stream of the Mass or via EWTN. Make a Spiritual Communion with this prayer.
  
  
• Venerate the image of Divine Mercy.
  
  
• Pray the Chaplet at 3 p.m. starting today and try to do it each day of the year in the Hour of Mercy for the dying and for poor souls. 
  
  

Then, throughout the year...

• Practice works of selfless love and mercy by helping others in trouble and offering prayers to save souls.
  
  
• Watch the live stream of the chapel in Poland housing the image of Divine Mercy and Saint Faustina's shrine so you can pray before the Holy Image of the Divine Mercy.

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Saint Faustina wrote in her diary on Good Friday 1937:

Jesus is commanding me to make a novena before the Feast of Mercy, and today I am to begin it for the conversion of the whole world and for the recognition of The Divine Mercy...so that every soul will praise My goodness. I desire trust from My creatures. Encourage souls to place great trust in My fathomless mercy. Let the weak, sinful soul have no fear to approach Me, for even if it had more sins than there are grains of sand in the world, all would be drowned in the unmeasurable depths of My mercy.  (Diary entry 1059)

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My daughter, look into My Merciful Heart and reflect its compassion in your own heart and in your deeds, so that you who proclaim My mercy to the world, may yourself be aflame with it. (Diary entry 1688)

Reparation Prayer for the First Saturday in March 2024

   

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. 

Amen.  

Prayer to Do God's Will

Our Jesus, who loves us so much, we trust in You. 

Jesus, be the thoughts in our minds. 

Jesus, be the words in our mouths.

Jesus, be the work of our hands. 

Jesus, be the love of our hearts. 

Make our thoughts into Your thoughts, Our Lord.

Make our words into Your words, Our Lord.

Make our work into Your work, Our Lord.

Make our love of others into Your love, Our Lord.

Lead us to pray as You pray, gentle Jesus.

Lead us to care as You care, gentle Jesus.

Lead us to forgive as You forgive, gentle Jesus.

Lead us to love as You love, gentle Jesus.

Lead us into the light and out of this darkness of the present world, Our Lord. 

Bring us close and allow us to rest in Your Most Sacred Heart.

Let Your Father's Will Be Done. 

We surrender to you in every aspect of our lives. 

Amen.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6

Reparation Prayer for the First Saturday in February 2024

   

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. 

Amen.  

Saint Brother André Brings UsTo Saint Joseph

Today is the feast of Saint Brother André, who is powerful in many ways and the patron of family caregivers. This is no coincidence since Brother André was a faithful supplicant of Saint Joseph, asking for many favors of help and healing for the people who came to see the priest in Quebec, Canada around a century ago. Saint Joseph is the ultimate caregiver for his participation in the Holy Family.

Saint Brother André said: “When you invoke Saint Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in Heaven knows what you need; well, so does His friend Saint Joseph...Tell him, ‘If you were in my place, Saint Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this in my behalf.’”

Prayer that honors good Saint Joseph: 

Good Saint Joseph, guide for the spiritual life, you accept Brother André’s prayers with affection. Animated by the blessing of God our Father, in heartfelt union, may the friendship between you last for an eternity of gladness. Greet us, your friends also, with that same affection, and keep us under your protection. With Jesus and Mary as our companions, lead us in the footsteps of Brother André in the ways of the Kingdom. Amen. 

Read more about Saint Brother André from Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from where this prayer was printed.

Reparation Prayer for the First Saturday in January 2024

   

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. 

Amen.  

First Friday Act of ReparationTo the Most Sacred Heart of JesusJanuary 2024

O Jesus, Divine Savior, deign to cast a look of mercy upon your children, who assemble in the same spirit of faith, reparation, and love and come to deplore their own infidelities, and those of all poor sinners, their brethren. 

May we touch your Divine Heart by the unanimous and solemn promises we are about to make and obtain mercy for ourselves, for the world, and for all who are so unhappy as not to love you. We all promise that for the future: For the forgetfulness and ingratitude of men, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the way you are deserted in your holy tabernacle, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the crimes of sinners, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the hatred of the impious, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the blasphemies uttered against you, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the sacrileges that profane your sacrament of love, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the outrages against your divinity, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the injuries of which you are the adorable victim, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the coldness of the greater part of your children, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the contempt of your loving invitation, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the infidelity of those who called themselves your friends, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the abuse of your grace, we will console you, O Lord. 

For our own unfaithfulness, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the incomprehensible hardness of our hearts, we will console you, O Lord. 

For our long delay in loving you, we will console you, O Lord. 

For our tepidity in your holy service, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your bitter sadness at the loss of souls, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your long waiting at the door of our hearts, we will console you, O Lord. 

For the heartless scorn that grieves you, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your loving sighs, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your loving tears, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your loving imprisonment, we will console you, O Lord. 

For your loving death, we will console you, O Lord. 

Let us pray  

O Jesus, Divine Savior, from whose heart comes forth this bitter complaint, "I looked for one that would comfort me, and I found none," graciously accept the feeble consolation we offer you, and aid us so powerfully by your grace, that we may, for the time to come, shun more and more all that can displease you, and prove ourselves in everything, and everywhere, and forever your most faithful and devoted servants. We ask it through your Sacred Heart, O Lord, who live and reign with the father and the Holy Spirit one God, world without end. Amen.

Reparation Prayer for the First Saturday in December 2023

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. Amen.  

Reparation Prayer for the First Saturday in November 2023

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. Amen.  

Our Lady of the Rosary: Reparation Prayer for First Saturday

   

O Most Holy Virgin and our Mother, we listen with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with the thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. 

Moved by the ardent desire of loving you as Our Mother and of promoting a true devotion to your Immaculate Heart, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to prove the sorrow we feel for the grievance that men cause you, and to atone, by means of our prayers and sacrifices, for the offenses with which men return your tender love.

Obtain for them and for us the pardon of so many sins. A word from you will obtain grace and amendment for us all.

Hasten, O Lady, the conversion of sinners, that they may love Jesus and cease to offend the Lord, already so much offended, and will not fall into hell. Turn your eyes of mercy toward us, that henceforth we may love God with all our heart while on earth and enjoy Him forever in heaven. Amen.