2 Divine Mercy Novenas?

[thomasf]

This post
facebook.com/SungPrayers?ref=ts&fref=ts

on Donna Cori Gibson’s facebook has me confused. She writes:

In two days (Good Friday) we are to start our Novena of Chaplets of Divine Mercy in preparation for the Feast of Mercy.
THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM ST. FAUSTINA’S NOVENA TO THE DIVINE MERCY which offers prayers for a different group of souls for nine days. While that novena is certainly useful, it is SECONDARY to the Novena of Chaplets.

In the Novena of Chaplets, Jesus says, "I will grant every possible grace to souls. (II, 197) From this and other passages in the Diary it appears that the Lord wants us to make novenas of the Chaplet for whatever need and has attached to it such a sweeping promise.** Unfortunately, many people have placed precedence to the Novena of Prayers, which our Lord dictated and has a promise that APPLIED TO ST. FAUSTINA ALONE**. (as per Divine Mercy publications - no me.)

I know of only one Divine Mercy Novena, and that’s this one:
ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm
which I have done many times before. DCG has yet to follow up with her ‘Novena of Chaplets’ so I don’t know what she’s talking about. Anyone have a clue? Does she just mean the novena I linked to above?

 

[crystal_waters]

I have the divine mercy prayer book, its the novena of chaplets that we are to make, we can make the other novena too but it mustnt replace the novena of chaplets

 

[thomasf]

What is the ‘novena of chaplets’ and how is it different from the novena I see listed everywhere else? I’ve never heard of that.

 

[Edmundus1581]

What is the ‘novena of chaplets’ and how is it different from the novena I see listed everywhere else? I’ve never heard of that.

I had previously thought that the novena of prayers was the primary novena in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday, however I seen now that the novena of chaplets was also requested. The “novena of chaplets” is exactly that - saying the complete chaplet for nine days, from Good Friday.

The following seems to sum it up. I found similar thoughts in several places.

If this novena is to be said before the Feast of Divine Mercy, it is necessary to add a Chaplet to the Divine Mercy each day, since Our Lord Jesus wanted a Novena of Chaplets to be a preparation for this Feast. He said about such a novena (of Chaplets): By this Novena I will grant every possible grace to souls (Diary 796). If we say the novena Jesus demanded from Sister Faustina (published below) with confidence, we may expect to receive graces due to our confidence, since a particular promise connected with this novena referred only to Sister Faustina.

However, “necessary to add a chaplet” seems more like the personal opinion of the author. I don’t see anything wrong with saying the novena of prayers as requested, without the chaplet. They are in different parts of the diary.

Our Lord directly asked for the novena of chaplets:

The Lord told me to recite this chaplet for the nine days before the Feast of Mercy. It is to begin on Good Friday. Then he told me, “By this novena I will grant every possible grace to souls (Diary 796)

This is in a different part of the diary from the novena prayers, which start at 1209, and don’t mention the chaplet.

 

[thomasf]

I think I understand. Some people JUST say the daily prayers Jesus gave St Faustina. I have always said each daily prayer followed by the chaplet, the whole thing.