Help with divine mercy chaplet

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This is from I John 2
But if anyone should sin,
we have, in the presence of the Father,
Jesus Christ, an intercessor who is just.
He is an offering for our sins,
and not for our sins only,
but for those of the whole world.
The following prayer was taught to the three children of Fatima by the Angel of Peace:
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore you profoundly, and I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And through the
infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners. Amen.
The angel recommended repeating this prayer many many times.

Now as you can see, both the above quotes are quite a bit like the Divine Mercy Prayer which is:
Eternal Father, we offer you the body, blood, soul, and divinity, of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
Taking the first two quotes and applying the ideas in them to the last quote of the Mercy prayer will help to understand it. And in addition, if we see that Jesus as MAN-God is in heaven before the Father, and is also on earth in all the tabernacales of the world, and understand that we offer him to the Father, his only beloved Son, for sin and reparation, we will then realize just what a powerful and effective prayer that is. For the Father would never refuse the gift of his only Son whom we present. The divinity is important since that is what makes Jesus the Father’s only Son. Body, blood, soul, is an important reflection since that is what inables him as the sacrificial lamb of God. The reason we are entitled to offer Jesus is that we are the priestly people of God by our baptism.
 
In fact the Council of Chalcedon distinguishes the divine and human natures. Jesus is one person in two natures. While the one person of Jesus suffered in his human nature, the divine nature cannot suffer. The divine nature is equally possessed by Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

What I am looking for is an answer to what it means to offer up divinity. Am I to understand that Jesus suffered in both his human and divine natures?
Yes Jesus has two natures but you can not seperate Jesus from either one of them. That is what you are trying to do!👍
 
This is from I John 2

The following prayer was taught to the three children of Fatima by the Angel of Peace:

The angel recommended repeating this prayer many many times.

Now as you can see, both the above quotes are quite a bit like the Divine Mercy Prayer which is:

Taking the first two quotes and applying the ideas in them to the last quote of the Mercy prayer will help to understand it. And in addition, if we see that Jesus as MAN-God is in heaven before the Father, and is also on earth in all the tabernacales of the world, and understand that we offer him to the Father, his only beloved Son, for sin and reparation, we will then realize just what a powerful and effective prayer that is. For the Father would never refuse the gift of his only Son whom we present. The divinity is important since that is what makes Jesus the Father’s only Son. Body, blood, soul, is an important reflection since that is what inables him as the sacrificial lamb of God. The reason we are entitled to offer Jesus is that we are the priestly people of God by our baptism.
Great point, Fred!

peace,
steve
 
Hopefully, these Catechism references will help clarify. It is the Divinity united to humanity in the Person of Jesus that makes the cross of Christ redemptive for mankind. This is why it is perfectly appropriate to offer the Divinity back to the Father. Also, keep in mind that the offering is not necessarily suffering, as was indicated in another post. The offering is the sacrifice of love and obedience. As noted by another posted, even the Incarnation was a sacrifice of love, but it was just the beginning. As an aside, we also make this offering at the Mass when the Eucharist is offered back to God as the memorial sacrifice of the Son.

464 The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.

616 It is love "to the end"446 that confers on Christ’s sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life.447 Now "the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died."448 No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take on himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. T**he existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons, and constitutes himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible his redemptive sacrifice for all. **

618 The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the “one mediator between God and men”.452 But because in his incarnate divine person he has in some way united himself to every man, “the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery” is offered to all men.453 He calls his disciples to “take up [their] cross and follow [him]”,454 for "Christ also suffered for [us], leaving [us] an example so that [we] should follow in his steps."455 In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries.456 This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering.457

1374 The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, t**ogether with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ **and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” …

1357 We carry out this command of the Lord by celebrating the memorial of his sacrifice. In so doing, we offer to the Father what he has himself given us: the gifts of his creation, bread and wine which, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the words of Christ, have become the body and blood of Christ. Christ is thus really and mysteriously made present.
 
I am including below questions I asked in the spirituality subforum. I was kindly directed here by a member:

Confused by divine mercy chaplet
I do not normally say this chaplet, but I have been prescribed it as a penance twice.

The Eternal Father prayer is an offering of Christ’s body, blood, soul, and divinity. To offer the divinity seems to imply that the divinity suffered and was offered on the cross.

Furthermore why offer the divinity that the whole Trinity already has? Jesus assumed human nature to offer it precisely because the Father has no human nature. He doesn’t need to be offered divinity.

I understand that Christ’s divinity is present in the Eucharist and was present on the cross. But that is not the same as to say that the divine nature is offered up. It is the body and blood that were offered up, Jesus’ humanity that suffered.

I cannot think of any way to interpret this prayer in an orthodox way. I’m looking for an orthodox way to interpret this prayer.
From the Baltimore Catechism

91. What were the chief sufferings of Christ?
Code:
    The chief sufferings of Christ Were His bitter agony of soul, His bloody sweat, His cruel scourging, His         crowning with thorns, His crucifixion, and His death on the cross. 
    
    (a) The Stations of the Cross and the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary call to mind the chief         sufferings of Christ. 
    
    ***(b) Christ suffered and died in His human nature; in His divine nature He could neither suffer nor die. All         of His sufferings, even the least, were of infinite value because His human and divine natures were united         in the divine Person of the Son of God. *
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No, Christ is a person with a divine nature. That person assumed the humanity. To say that Divinity along with other elements is what Jesus consists of is to confuse the natures with the person.
May be semantics, but He is a Divine Person with Divine and human natures.
 
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