Ninth Day: Easter Saturday
Today bring to Me souls who have become lukewarm, and immerse them in the abyss of 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 bet 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.
Why I love St. Faustina and Divine Mercy
"I never recalled hearing about the Feast of Mercy or the promises which are attached to praying the chaplet (devotion) to Divine Mercy that Sister Faustina was instructed by Jesus to have proclaimed. Her prayers and persistence led to the acceptance of the devotion which was initially prayed in Poland in the 1930s and is now prayed all over the world. It was not until Pope John Paul II established the Feast of Divine Mercy at the turn of this century that the feast was celebrated as Jesus wished, on the first Sunday after Easter which is the eighth day of the Easter octave. The Easter season begins with Jesus’ passion and death on the cross where he first revealed His Divine Mercy and continues with the revelation of Jesus’ Divine Mercy for all mankind as is evidenced by the novena which he taught to Sister Faustina. I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fountain of My mercy. (1209) Now-Saint Faustina’s prayers and persistence has given me the hope for life eternal with Jesus in heaven."
Frank McC.
