Good Friday
April 15, 2022
Good Friday
Divine Mercy Novena, Day 1
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear
children! Also today I call all of you for your hearts to blaze with
more ardent love for the Crucified, and do not forget that, out of love
for you, He gave His life so that you may be saved. Little children,
meditate and pray that your heart may be open to God's love. Thank you
for having responded to my call." (September 25, 2007)
On
this most solemn day, Good Friday, we worship our Crucified Savior. In
silence and fasting, we remain with Him as He dies on the Cross and is
buried in the Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. We then wait with Our Lady
and the women. It is a time of silence and patient faith.
We
also remember that on this day at the moment of Christ’s death, His
Heart was pierced by the soldier’s lance and Blood and Water flowed from
our Savior’s side. Jesus revealed to St. Faustina that this Blood and
Water is the infinite outpouring of the Mercy of God for sinful man. And
so, through her we have been given the Divine Mercy Novena, in which we
call forth the Blood and Water upon all Mankind, asking for the
salvation of souls. May we pray this Novena with all our hearts, because
our world is in desperate need of the Mercy of God. Our prayers are
necessary!
Divine Mercy Novena, Day 1:
Today
bring to Me ALL MANKIND, ESPECIALLY ALL SINNERS, and 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.
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.
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.
Now we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet:
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls,
and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world.
O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy,
envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.
(Repeat 3 times) O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You!
Our Father, Hail Mary and the Apostle’s Creed
For each of the five decades (On each “Our Father” bead of the rosary, pray)
Eternal
Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your
Dearly Beloved Son,Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and
those of the whole world.
(On each of the 10 “Hail Mary” beads, pray...)
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Concluding prayer (Repeat 3 times)
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Closing Prayer
Eternal
God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion
inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that
in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but
with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love
and Mercy itself. Amen.
In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2022
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