Hour of Mercy: 3:00 p.m, Thursday, October 26, 2023

DEVOTION TO THE DIVINE MERCY

Daily Reflections, Supplications and Prayers

Translator SPANISH-ENGLISH: Mrs. Mari Campos-Waite

Thursday, October 26, 2023

REFLECTION:

“Once, I suddenly saw THE LORD JESUS in great Majesty and He told me these words: – My daughter, if you want, at this moment I create a new world more beautiful than this one and you will spend the rest of your days in it. I answered: – I do not want any world, I want You, oh JESUS, I want to love You with the love with which You love me; I beg you one thing: Make my heart capable of loving you. (53) I am very surprised, my JESUS, that you ask such a question, because in reality, what would I do with these worlds, even if you gave them to me by the thousands? What benefit would it have? You know well, JESUS, that my heart dies of longing for You; Everything that is outside of You is nothing to me. At that moment I did not see anything else, but a force enveloped my soul and a strange fire caught fire in my heart, and I entered into a kind of agony for You; then I heard these words: – To no soul do I unite so closely and in this way as to you and this because of the deep humility and ardent love that you have for Me”. (Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska, The Divine Mercy in my soul, Diary, 587).

SUPPLICATIONS:

– Let us ask for the Grace to approach the LORD with humility,

– Let us ask for the Grace to have a great love for the LORD and to always depend on His Mercy.

– Let us pray for all the brothers who are in our School of Divine Mercy from various countries, so that they allow themselves to be guided and formed by the King of Mercy.

– For our suffering humanity,

– For the souls in Purgatory,

– By the intentions of the Virgin Mary,

– For our Holy Catholic Church,

– For our personal intentions.

PURPOSE OF THE DAY:

– Always be united to the King of Mercy.

– Pray the Meditated Divine Mercy Chaplet pdf.

– Respect the Hour of Mercy.

– Try to do at least one work of Mercy throughout the day.

CLOSING PRAYER:

“Oh HOLY TRINITY, eternal GOD, I thank You for allowing me to know the greatness and the difference between the degrees of glory that divide souls. Oh, how great is the difference between a single degree of deeper knowledge of GOD. Oh, if only souls could know it. Oh my GOD, if I could conquer one more, I would gladly endure all the torments that [all] the martyrs had suffered together. (68) Truly, all these torments seem like nothing to me in comparison with the glory that awaits us for all eternity. Oh LORD, submerge my soul in the ocean of Your divinity and grant me the grace of knowing You, because the better I know You, the more ardently I desire You, and my love for You grows stronger.” (cf. Diary 605). Oh My Good Merciful JESUS, King of Mercy, I trust in You and only in You I hope. Amen. JESUS I TRUST IN YOU!