The divine mercy prayer(is there a compulsory time for praying it?)

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I have notice some people considering 3.00 PM and AM as the correct time to pray the Divine mercy Prayer and i wonder what their understanding as regards prayer could be if they considered that every other person praying same prayer outside those time are not doing Divine Mercy. If St Faustina was instructed to make the prayer at 3PM. Does it mean everyone has to make the prayer at PM all the time? Beside where St Faustina was then when she was instructed, if we have to go by the 3pm, it means you have to calculate it to you own time in your own country and know where it will fall, 3pm in Poland is not same in USA or Australia. The question which i know my answer to is that must it be prayed compulsorily by 3pm or even its equivalent?
 
No, we do not have to make the prayer at 3 pm. Some people like to pray at 3 pm anyway because historically that’s the “Hour of Power” when Jesus died. If you do not work outside the home, or you are in a religious order, then maybe you can always set aside 3 pm as your prayer time. But from a practical standpoint, many if not most people are working at 3 pm, or attending classes for school, and can’t just go take off for an hour to pray.

Also, as you said it is 3 pm somewhere in the world every hour, and time means nothing to God. If someone felt strongly about 3 pm then they could follow the example given in the “My Military Missal” book by starting the prayer at the hour they were free to pray, and then finding the time zone in the world where it was 3 pm and joining their prayers to that time zone. There were actually little charts and gadgets for doing this, about 100 years ago. I’ve seen them on eBay.

Furthermore, St. Faustina did not just pray the Divine Mercy at 3 pm. She prayed it all day as she was going about her business. She also prayed it whenever she sensed someone was dying and in need of it (she had the ability to sense when someone in the nearby hospital or whatever was about to die).

My parish churches have groups that pray the Divine Mercy and it happens at all sorts of times of the day…one place prays it at 9 am, one place prays it at 9:45 am, one place prays it at 5 pm, etc.

Just pray it whenever you can.
 
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No, we do not have to make the prayer at 3 pm. Some people like to pray at 3 pm anyway because historically that’s the “Hour of Power” when Jesus died. If you do not work outside the home, or you are in a religious order, then maybe you can always set aside 3 pm as your prayer time. But from a practical standpoint, many if not most people are working at 3 pm, or attending classes for school, and can’t just go take off for an hour to pray.

Also, as you said it is 3 pm somewhere in the world every hour, and time means nothing to God. If someone felt strongly about 3 pm then they could follow the example given in the “My Military Missal” book by starting the prayer at the hour they were free to pray, and then finding the time zone in the world where it was 3 pm and joining their prayers to that time zone. There were actually little charts and gadgets for doing this, about 100 years ago. I’ve seen them on eBay.

Furthermore, St. Faustina did not just pray the Divine Mercy at 3 pm. She prayed it all day as she was going about her business. She also prayed it whenever she sensed someone was dying and in need of it (she had the ability to sense when someone in the nearby hospital or whatever was about to die).

My parish churches have groups that pray the Divine Mercy and it happens at all sorts of times of the day…one place prays it at 9 am, one place prays it at 9:45 am, one place prays it at 5 pm, etc.

Just pray it whenever you can.
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Tis_Bearself your are absolutely correct, we also need to correct those who just thinks the prayers must be said at 3PM ONLY​

 
How did you make your letters huge? 🤔

To the OP:
compulsory? no. suggested? 3 pm
Or any time you need to.
 
Anyone who feel like doing it at 3pm should go ahead but it does not mean divine mercy has to be 3pm that is my argument and it was not the chaplet that was said even at the so called 3pm but The Hour Prayer as the case may be
 
Yeah, you might note that’s not what I said. :confused:

And you didn’t answer my question.

It IS recommended, but NOT compulsory:
Jesus asked that all who venerate His mercy honour His Passion by remembering Him with this prayer at 3 O’Clock in the afternoon. He asks us, “If only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony”. (Diary 1320) At this moment, He asks us to implore His Mercy, especially for sinners. He told St. Faustina, “as often as you hear the clock strike the third hour, immerse yourself completely in My mercy, adoring and glorifying it; invoke its omnipotence for the whole world, and particularly for poor sinners; for at that moment, mercy was opened wide for every soul”. (Diary 1572)

The short prayer which Jesus taught St. Faustina for the veneration of His Mercy at 3 O’Clock is, “O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a Fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You”. This is also known as the Conversion Prayer. Jesus told St. Faustina, "I desire that you know more profoundly the love that burns in My Heart for souls, and you will understand this when you meditate upon My Passion. Call upon My mercy on behalf of sinners; I desire their salvation. When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion. This is the prayer: “O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.” (Diary 186-187) St. Faustina also created her own prayer for this moment, which is: You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. (Diary 1319)

Jesus asked, that as often as we “hear the clock strike the third hour” that we deeply contemplate His Passion, “if only for a brief moment”. But after we observe the moment of the death of the Messiah at 3 O’Clock with this special prayer, we then have before us “the hour of great mercy for the whole world”. (Diary 1320) Jesus has let us know that in Heaven, the 3 O’Clock hour is a special holy hour, as He said, “it was the hour of grace for the whole world — mercy triumphed over justice…In this hour, you can obtain everything for yourself and for others for the asking…In this hour, I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion”. (Diary 1320, 1572) He asked St. Faustina, that if she had time she should make the Stations of the Cross during this special hour. He acknowledged that her duties might prevent her from being able to do this, but He asked that on these occasions, she step into a church and adore His Mercy, if only for a brief moment. He also said that if she did not have the opportunity to enter a church, she could pause, wherever she was, and “immerse yourself in prayer there where you happen to be, if only for a very brief instant”. (Diary 1572)
 
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Those was personal instruction to St Faustina, which there could have being a reason in her time apart from the purpose
 
Of course. 😣
But a person would be foolish to deny that the hour in which OUr Lord perished for our SALVATION would not be an EXCELLENT time to pray it. It speaks to bigger truth. He died for us. our of sheeer lvoe and MERCY

Goodbye.
 
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Which also does not depreciate praying at the rest of the time. Definitely It does not mean God answers prayers in full at 3pm and then Half prayer in other times as far as my Faith is concerned
 
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