Divine Mercy chaplet wording confusion

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I know this is nit picky but why does the Divine Mercy chaplet start with:

“We offer you the body, blood, soul, & divinity…”

Shouldn’t the wording be more appropriate to say:

“You gave us the body blood, soul, & divinity…”

My Lenten promise is to use my prayer beads daily, and this prayer popped up in my research.
 
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Episcopalian said:
Shouldn’t the wording be more appropriate to say:

“ You gave us the body blood, soul, & divinity…”
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You’ll have to take that up with Jesus and St. Faustina. 😉

But in all seriousness, at Mass, the Church offers up the Body and Blood and Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. By praying those words, whether at Mass when we are physically present at the sacrifice, or even when we are not, we are uniting ourselves to that offering which the Church continues to make through her priests at her altars all throughout the world.

-Fr ACEGC
 
Thanks Father! That makes so much more sense now!

I initially thought it sounded so presumptuous and it was alarming at first.

Some Catholic Mass songs are sung from God’s point of view so I was like “Hold on…too far!!!” When I initially saw that prayer 😛

I appreciate the explanation! Thinking it through… the wording of the Mass totally makes sense now!

We have the same liturgy in Episcopalianism and I got lost in the rote process as opposed to really listening
 
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There are also many other traditional prayers where “we” offer up the Body and Blood of Jesus to God in atonement for our sins. St. Faustina’s wasn’t the first.

The Prayer of St. Gertrude, which is pretty old, goes, “Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood of Jesus, in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory…”

The traditional Morning Offering that I say daily goes, “O God, in union with the Most Immaculate Heart of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, I offer you the most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ from all the altars throughout the world today, joining with it my every thought, word, and action of this day…”. This prayer is also pretty old.

There are lots of other similar old prayers.

As Father said, this offering is made at Mass and when we pray these prayers it’s the same idea and we may even mention the Mass in some of them, though the Divine Mercy Prayer doesn’t.
 
This is my first time on this site so I ask for your patients. This topic caught my attention and I appreciate the topic being raised and the responses so far. I had always believed that baptism, when our parents affirm belief and faith in Christ on our behalf, followed by confirmation when we are old enough to make that confirmation ourselves joined Christ with us. Since Christ is joined with us He is a part of us, which gives us the right to offer up to God Christ’ Body, Blood, Soul, & Divinity. I had also thought that when I’m willing I can make a decision, communicated through prayer, to join my suffering to the cross that is the Body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ for the atonement of sins. So, now I’m confused. Are we always joined to Christ when we offer Him up or do we need to specify our intention to include ourselves in that offering? I hope I didn’t complicate things but am very glad there is a Forum where we can obtain assistance in discerning between what we may have been taught vs catechism.
 
For just offering up Christ’s Body, which is also in a sense your own body because you’ve become part of the Body of Christ by being baptized and confirmed, I don’t think you have to make a conscious decision other than just saying you offer it up. See more detailed analysis here.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ca...confirmation/confirmation-unites-us-to-christ


However, if you wish to join your own suffering with Christ’s and offer it up, you do need to consciously do that. Otherwise, Ven. Fulton Sheen wouldn’t have been exclaiming “All that wasted suffering” when he passed a hospital, because the suffering would have been automatically offered up for any baptized person.
 
When I read this prayer I interpret that phrase in my head as “we remind you that Your Son gave Himself.up for our sins”.
This is how an idea just came to my head as I was praying this, in English, because I only found an American phone app with this prayer that I wanted to pray but did not know how since I am not Catholic.
Usually prayers even if unfulfilled and especially then I see as a constant reminder to God, aling with the worship.
 
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The Prayer of St. Gertrude, which is pretty old, goes, “Eternal Father, I offer you the body and blood of Jesus, in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory…”
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Just a small correction since the post won’t let me edit, the wording here is actually “Eternal Father, I offer you the most precious Blood of your Divine Son Jesus, in union with all the Masses said…”

Same idea, I just got the wording of the prayer a little confused. I say this prayer every day but sometimes when you go to type out a prayer in the car there’s a disconnect between brain and keypad 🙂
 
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