Pillars of Fire In My Soul

make before the Feast of The Divine Mercy, we should take special note of something else that Sister Faustina wrote in her Diary: The Lord told me to recite this chaplet for the nine days before the Feast of Mercy. It is to begin on Good Friday. Then He told me : By this novena, I will grant every possible grace to souls (Diary, 796). From this and other passages in the Diary, it appears that the Lord wants us to make novenas of the Chaplet for whatever need. With most people devoted to The Divine Mercy, the novena of prayers described by Fr. Andrasz has taken prece- dence over the Novena of Chaplets to which Our Lord attached such a sweeping promise for anyone who prays it. Perhaps they do not sufficiently realize that the promise Our Lord attached to the novena for which He dictated the intentions applied to Sister Faustina alone, for He said to her on that occasion: I will deny nothing to any soul whom you [singular] will bring to the fount of My mercy ... (Diary, 1209). Anyone making a novena to The Divine Mercy, therefore, should seriously consider including the Chaplet of Mercy as part of it. 20. Fr. Andrasz appears not to have considered a few other elements that, with those he mentioned, are presented in Sister Faustina’s Diary as together constituting the devotion to The Divine Mercy indicated by the Lord Himself, namely: 1) The remembrance of His Passion at 3 o’clock in the afternoon if only for a very short moment; 2) Frequent recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, but especially in connection with the Feast of Mercy; 3) The proclamation of (announcing of, making known publicly) the Divine Mercy so as to stir up trust in people towards God; and 4) Above all, the reception and 76 Pillars of Fire in My Soul