Protestants and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy

  • Thread starter Thread starter RevDrNorth
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
R

RevDrNorth

Guest
I was curious what Protestants thought of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplet_of_Divine_Mercy

It is prayed on rosary beads as a means of keeping focused but is highly Christ centered.
It speaks of Christ’s shed blood, passion and mercy. It addresses the fact that Jesus is the atonement of the sins for the world.
 
Why not a heartfelt prayer to Christ based on your thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams?
 
A lot of Protestants have objections, based on their understanding of Jesus’ teachings, about repetitious prayers.

Also, a lot of Protestants have objections to using material objects (beads, statues, pictures, holy water, etc.), because they fear that the focus is on these objects rather than on Christ.

Interestingly, many of these same Protestants will sing a praise and worship chorus dozens of times during a worship service. My husband and I counted the repetitions once in a P and W chorus at our old Protestant church–the same chorus was repeated 25 times.

Classical music lovers do the SAME THING–have you ever sung Handel’s Messiah. “For unto us a Child is born, unto us, a Son is given, unto us, a Child is born”–repeat several dozen times until song ends!

Also, many of the charismatic Protestants will pray in tongues and have no idea what they are praying. For all they know, they could be reciting the same prayer over and over again!

Also interestingly, many of these same Protestants will gladly wear a WWJD bracelet, or a necklace with a Sign of the Fish, or some other piece of apparel giving witness to their faith. And that’s the difference–these Protestants are using the material objects as witnessing tools, not prayer aids. But they will use a Prayer Journal.

I am waiting for chaplets to make a comeback in Protestantism in the “alternative” or the “emergent” movements. All it will take is for a solid, respected teacher like Rick Warren or Dr. James Dobson or Beth Moore to voice approval, or even better, for a Christian rock band star to voice approval, and we’ll see chaplets in Protestant catalogs. Did all of you know that there are Ecumenical Rosaries prayed by some Protestants? That’s how my husband first got interested in the Rosary, so don’t knock it!

(Note: Rick Warren is in a little doo doo at the moment because of his wishy-washiness about Proposition 8.)
 
RevDrNorth said:
I was curious what Protestants thought of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplet_of_Divine_Mercy

It is prayed on rosary beads as a means of keeping focused but is highly Christ centered.
It speaks of Christ’s shed blood, passion and mercy. It addresses the fact that Jesus is the atonement of the sins for the world.
Click to expand...
I love it! My family prayed it for the first time this Lent. It is a beautiful prayer, one in which I can get lost in just thinking about what Christ did, is doing and will do for me.

Dcn Mark
 
Hisalone said:
Why not a heartfelt prayer to Christ based on your thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams?
Click to expand...
Oh the Chaplet of Divine Mercy is all of what you just said. Written or spontaneous prayers are both used by Christians. A written, well thought out prayer is just a good and is recieved by God as is a spontaneous from the hip type prayer.

Dcn Mark
 
When I was a Protestant, I attended the Sunday night Youth Group when I visited my girlfriend for Spring Break (we were in high school and lived over 300 miles away). It happened to be Divine Mercy Sunday, and so we talked about Faustina and the Chaplet (at this time, I was an anti-Catholic that wanted to “save” my girlfriend). We started to pray the Chaplet, and I enjoyed it so much that I started a Chaplet of Divine Mercy group on Facebook so that we could pray for anyone who was recently deceased (after about a year not enough people died that we all knew, and so we stopped).
I think that the biggest issue is that it comes from the Catholic Church, it involves a St.'s vision, and you pray it on a Rosary. That are the objections that I have heard from Protestants, but at the same time there were some Protestants that were perfectly fine with it that were on Facebook. I think it’s simply a matter that many don’t know about it, just like many don’t know about Catholic beliefs.
 
:As a convert to catholicism, I never really understood the rosary or Divine Mercy until I learned to meditate and to say the prayers from the heart. When mediataing on the mysteries of the rosary I learned to live the scenes of the mysteries and to place myself in them and to visualize Christ, Mary & God the Father in the scene with me present.It brings very personal feelings out and can lead to contemplation–that is God takes over and teaches, either consciously or in the soul.
I Learned about the Divine Mercy just a few years ago from inspirations at Medjugorje.
THe Novena of the Divine mercy taught me how to apply the prayers to the people and situations of the world and this led me to picture people in different situations and vocations. This takes it from a repetitive prayer to one applied to many, those unknown and to those in my personal life by visualizing them with the verbal or meditative part of the prayer. since it is geared to God our Father, I visualize that I am speaking to Him directly and offering the intentions as I do.
This helped me a lot to enjoy and to apply the prayers to others and this really satisfies.
If any one wants to receive the novena prayers to :):)help them to apply the Mercy prayers.they can e-mail me at — kite5@verizon.net Free
God Bless !
 
I heard it on the radio while a passenger in someone’s car. I don’t remember anything about it that would be objectionable to anyone who says they believe in Jesus.

But, what would I know? Besides that was nearly 3 years ago now. The lady who put the program on mentioned why they play it at 3:00 daily. She took it very seriously, I assumed it was a good thing for a christian to do.
 
I think it is a very beautiful prayer. I really enjoy it. I have noticed that different melodies are used for it; not sure why. The melody I really love is the one aired on EWTN where the two ladies and the black man in the front row are taking turns singing the verses. I not only love the melody and words but I enjoy watching them; they look so enraptured in the moment, especially the one gal.
 
My sister has recently started to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. She is non-Catholic. She said that meditating on this prayer gives her more peace despite difficult situations in her life.
 
I have listened to it on EWTN radio (wish XM would get EWTN 😉 ) and found it to be a beautiful prayer.

Jon
 
Hisalone said:
Why not a heartfelt prayer to Christ based on your thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams?
Click to expand...
Why do you feel that this is not? Is there something wrong with meditative prayer?
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that opposing this prayer is being contrary for the sake of being contrary.

Jon
 
It is such a beautiful prayer…I enjoy praying it. It’s a wonderful way to sit quietly in His Presence and worship Him. I wish everyone would pray it.:gopray:
 
MarkBrown said:
I love it! My family prayed it for the first time this Lent. It is a beautiful prayer, one in which I can get lost in just thinking about what Christ did, is doing and will do for me.

Dcn Mark
Click to expand...
Hi Mark 👋 – I’m so glad you like praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Have you ever heard someone sing it as they pray? I’ll often start just praying it, but because I know the melody (even though I don’t have an especially nice singing voice) I end up singing it in the end. Singing it does make it especially meaningful and personal at the same time.

Kathy
 
Cat said:
I am waiting for chaplets to make a comeback in Protestantism in the “alternative” or the “emergent” movements.
Click to expand...
I’m waiting for Protestants to come back to the Catholic church! 👍
 
It is a beautiful prayer and a very powerfull one also! Satan hates us focusing on christ’s passion!

For those that are interested there is a book where it summarises all the graces received from this prayer as well as promises! It’s a little booklet on the divine mercy and with a picture of Jesus and the sacred heart on the front.

One promise our lord made about this prayer is that if you say it in the presence of a dying person, Christ will not be a judge but a mercifull saviour for that person! WOW!

there are heaps more promises also. i do the novena every year, the one that starts on good friday.
 
Louie1983 said:
One promise our lord made about this prayer is that if you say it in the presence of a dying person, Christ will not be a judge but a mercifull saviour for that person! WOW!
Click to expand...
Wow. That is amazing!

I wonder, though, if Protestants would do this prayer for the promises it offers, or if they would even believe those promises.

Thoughts from Protestants on this?
 
I love the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. When I was still a Protestant (3 yrs ago) I first heard it sung on EWTN. I fell in love with it immediately. It is the first Chaplet that I ever used rosary beads with. I had a hard time about doing the Hail Mary and using the beads but this was so easy it just felt right!! It still stirs my heart whenever I hear it. It just brings me into such close communikon with the Lord. In fact I have not been doing it lately and reading this has stirred me to start up again on a reguloar basis. When I was ging tghrough the RCIA process I mentioned to the directer how mucvh I Like the divine mercey chaplet that sdhe made a copy for me on a disc so I can sing it along with the EWTN anytime Iwant. Thanks fcor the boast!! Gotta get back to doing it regularly.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top