using Rosary beads or simply counting the prayers on your fingers or in your mind. It is good to pray the Chaplet daily, before or after work, as a spiritual gift of mercy for your patients, whatever their condition. Say unceasingly the chaplet that I have taught you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death (687). Oh, what great graces I will grant to souls who say this chaplet; the very depths of My tender mercy are stirred for the sake of those who say the chaplet (848). About St. Faustina’s spiritual work with the dying, she noted: “Especially now, while I am in this hospital, I experience an inner communion with the dying who ask me for prayer when their agony begins. God has given me a wondrous contact with the dying! (835). “There is great help for the dying in this chaplet. I often pray for an intention that I have learned of interiorly. I always pray until I experience in my soul that the prayer has had its effect. ... [One] evening, a certain young man was dying; he was suffering terribly. For his intention, I began to say the chaplet which the Lord had taught me. I said it all, but the agony continued. I wanted to start the Litany of the Saints, but suddenly I heard the words, “Say the chaplet.” I understood that the soul needed the special help of prayers and great mercy. His sufferings then ceased, and he died peacefully. Oh, how much we should pray for the dying! Let us take advantage of mercy while there is still time for mercy! ... It sometimes happens that the dying person is in the second or third building away, yet for the spirit space does not exist. ... it sometime happens I know about a death occurring several hundred kilometers away” (1035). 27
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