Reference
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy
A short, fixed devotion prayed on ordinary Rosary beads — not an ancient prayer, but a twentieth-century one, and a genuinely simple one.
Where it comes from
The Chaplet was given, according to her own account, to St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun, in the 1930s. Unlike the Rosary, it isn't a development of centuries of custom — it's a single, fixed, modern devotion, and it's prayed on the same five-decade beads as the Rosary.
How to pray it
- Begin with one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and the Apostles' Creed.
- On each of the large (Our Father) beads, once per decade: "Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Thy dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world."
- On each of the ten small (Hail Mary) beads in that decade: "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
- Repeat for all five decades.
- Close by saying three times: "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
What next
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Fifteen decades and the mysteries that go with them.
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