Divine Mercy

[Menfitano]

Hi Everyone,

I was just curious if anyone has experienced any grace through the chaplet/devotion of the Divine Mercy? I went to a healing mass at the National Shrine for Divine Mercy in Stockton, MA some months ago where I had something of a “strange” but beautiful experience. It was a clear turning point for me in my illness of Psoriatic Arthritis. I’ve since been taking the chaplet of Divine Mercy much more seriously.

 

[mymamamary]

So have I, that is what is turning me to the Marians. For years I treated the devotion like nah, Nice Picture and all, but I think the SACRED HEART is cooler. Now, I am waking up to realise what a beautiful devotion it really is…

 

[PaladinSword]

I’m not sure about anything too spectacular but I never know what Jesus is doing behind the scenes. I especially enjoy the promises our Lord attached to this devotion. The most powerful experience I had with it was when I prayed it at my uncles bedside as he was dying from cancer. He passed away a few days later but I trust Jesus promise that he would come for him as the merciful saviour. My uncle died shortly after extreme unction while my family was praying the rosary. I was not there but I was a pallbearer at the funeral and it was my first time. God does not lie.

 

[Sirach2]

My husband and I had gone to Harbor Freight to buy some “man” things, so I waited in the car for him. Suddenly, I had a powerful urge to pray the Chaplet for him, and I did so with attention and deep devotion. Within 3 or 4 hours, he was dead, crushed in the chest by his tractor.

Since he had not been to church in many years, I felt God was preparing him for death and for turning to Him for mercy through the power and timing of that chaplet.

Afterwards, I felt compelled for about a year to pray it continuously for him, doing so at least twice daily, sometimes more. About a week after the one-year anniversary of his death, while I was at mass, I had an overwhelming sense of my husband’s presence, with very great joy. I asked the Lord then if that meant he was now in heaven, and more joy and profound tears flooded me. I wondered whether that consolation was from God, due to the intensity of it.

That same evening as I prayed the LoTH, (Evening prayer 2, week 1), the reading began: “Praised be God, the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation!”

 

[Sirach2]

On a somewhat lesser note, in reading the Diary of St. Faustina, I took special notice of her intercession for calming storms through the prayer of the chaplet. My area had been virtually pummelled by snow storms a couple years ago (remember?). The toll on workers clearing roads, electricians repairing power lines, folks shoveling snow, etc., was very great, almost to a breaking point.

In the face of all this, we just received another forecast for eight more inches of snow. I intensified my prayers using the chaplet, and wonder of wonders … the weather map showed my town like a donut hole in the middle of a huge area that was hit again, but my borough received only two inches or so. Everyone else around me was hit again with heavy snow. I can only trust that God heard these prayers.

Glory to God for His mercy!