The Divine Mercy Novena is a prayer that Jesus Christ taught to Sister Faustina, entrusting her with teaching it to us so that we would spread it and pray it throughout the world.
The prayer begins on Good Friday and lasts nine days. During the recitation of this novena,
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ promised to grant us many graces. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ said to Sister Faustina:
“I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fountain of my mercy, that they may draw from it strength and refreshment
and whatever graces they need in the hardships of life, and especially at the hour of death. Each day you will bring to my Heart a different group of souls, and you will immerse them in the ocean of my mercy. And I will bring all these souls into the house of my Father. You will do this in this life and in the life to come.
And for my part, I will refuse nothing to any soul whom you bring to the fountain of my mercy. Each day you will ask my Father for graces for these souls, by my bitter Passion.”
And on the tenth day (the first Sunday after Easter), our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ asked that we honour his mercy with a feast and celebrate his mercy solemnly.
He asked that this day be an occasion of help and relief for all souls, especially great sinners. And on this day, the Feast of Divine Mercy,
“the depths of his tender mercy will be opened, and whoever approaches the sacraments will obtain complete forgiveness of sins and of the punishment due to them.”
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.
Have mercy on us, O God, and on the whole world.
Prepared by Rita of the Sawt El Rab team
