Devotees pray the Divine Mercy novena each day with the specific intention, leading to the Divine Mercy Sunday. Each day has an intention, as revealed to Saint Faustina. Novena is a nine-day preparation period to celebrate a feast day. The novena to Divine Mercy begins on Good Friday. How to participate in the Divine Mercy novena? Ě solemn feast day attached with indulgences (Divine Mercy Sunday).Ě book (the Diary of Faustina Kowalska).Vocal prayers (Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena).Private revelations, arising from popular piety – the faithful’s heart, remain open to the liturgy – the worship of the community and magisterium.ĭivine Mercy devotion involves five things: There is a relationship between popular piety and liturgy. Liturgy is an orderly expression of the faith of the whole Church based on the Gospel. Private revelation often springs from popular piety, which can open ways to be incorporated in the Church’s liturgy. Why is a private revelation on the Church’s calendar? Saint Faustina recorded Jesus’s words and vision, her thoughts, and prayers in a personal diary, leading her to become the apostle of mercy. Jesus’s apparitions to the polish nun continued for four years. Jesus appeared to her as a King of Mercy, wearing a white garment with red and pale rays emanating from His Sacred Heart. Faustina was a simple, young, uneducated Polish nun who received a special calling just before World War II. Pope Paul II canonized Faustina in 2000, declaring the Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. It is a particular devotion based on the private revelation to Saint Faustina Kowalska in Poland.ĭivine Mercy Sunday is 20 years old. The Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday on the Second Sunday of Easter. Millions of people across the world look forward to the Divine Mercy Sunday that falls on April 11 this year. Canada: Divine Mercy is a modern devotion, a recent addition to the Catholic tradition of prayers.

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