The Divine Mercy NOVENA: Day 1 (Good Friday)

Promises for Recitation

Jesus made several promises to St. Faustina by for those who observed this 15-minute devotion for 9-days.

• Those who participate will receive special graces, especially at the hour of death.

• Even the most hardened sinners can find hope and salvation through the recitation of the chaplet.

• Its graces serve as a source of comfort and encouragement for many, reinforcing the belief in God's infinite mercy.

St Faustina's Locutions

In this pdf, Divine Mercy in My Soul, the diary of St Maria Faustina Kowalska, Jesus revealed to Saint Faustina a 9-day novena that He desired be prayed in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday.  The novena was to begin on Good Friday and continue daily throughout the Triduum and of Easter Week in preparation for the glorious Feast of Mercy which was to take place on the final day of Easter Octave, see Diary #1209-1230.

During this novena that Jesus revealed to St Faustina, He asks that each day be dedicated to prayers for a different group of people.  The novena below comes from private revelations of St Faustina that she recorded in her diary, as quoted below.

"I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fount of My mercy, that they may draw there from strength and refreshment and whatever graces they need in the hardships of life and, especially, at the hour of death. On each day you will bring to My Heart a different group of souls, and you will immerse them in this 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 next. I will deny nothing to any soul whom you will bring to the fount of My mercy. On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My bitter Passion, for graces for these souls."

DAY 1 (Good Friday) 

"Today bring to Me ALL MANKIND, ESPECIALLY ALL SINNERS.

Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.

In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me."

-Jesus to St Faustina

Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us.

Do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness.

Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It.

We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

O omnipotence of Divine Mercy,

Salvation of sinful people,

You are a sea of mercy and compassion;

You aid those who treat You with humility.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus.

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen

At this time or your usual time (3pm suggested), pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and the Litany of Divine Mercy.

Sources

About the Divine Mercy Chaplet | divinemercylife.com

How to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy | USCCB,com