The spiritual fruitfulness of remembering the Hour of Great Mercy, praying The Divine Mercy Chaplet and venerating His Image — experienced by those who with simple faith and trust took Christ’s word seriously and acted upon it — is the reason why The Divine Mercy message and devotion spread so rapidly and widely throughout the world. It is as though God the Father cannot resist answering requests that call upon the precious merits of His Beloved Son’s loving sacrifice for us –– His Passion full of pain and sorrow –– as the compelling motive. Jesus asks: 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! (186-7). By praying for sinners and the needs of others with confidence, we also fulfill the conditions that constitute the heart of this devotion: trust and deeds of mercy. Living and Proclaiming the Mystery of The Divine Mercy Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with mercy (301). Speak to the whole world about My mercy (1190). My daughter, write that the greater the misery of a soul, the greater its right to My mercy; [urge] all souls to trust in the unfathomable abyss of My mercy, because I want to save them all. On the cross, the fountain of My mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls — no one have I excluded! (1182). 33
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