Mother of Mercy, Queen of Families hear us as we pray. Please intercede to your Son Jesus, The Divine Mercy, for our families and bring them into the safety of your Immaculate Heart.

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of they womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death. Amen.

Day 1 - Let us pray for the family, the domestic Church. We pray especially for the faithful families in the world to continue their Godly example. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, pray for us.

Day 2- Let us pray for families suffering the scourge of addictions. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Maximilian Kolbe ad Blessed Matt Talbot, pray for us.

Day 3- Let us pray for broken families divided by divorce. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Helena, pray for us.

Day 4- Let us pray for families mourning the loss of a child, spouse or other family member. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, pray for us.

Day 5- Let us pray for families suffering illness. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Gemma Galgani and St. Luke, pray for us.

Day 6- Let us pray for the inter-generational healing of the family. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Charles Borromeo, pray for us.

Day 7- Let us pray for the war-torn, the persecuted and families suffering from poverty. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Stephen, pray for us.

Day 8- Let us pray for all our family members in purgatory. (Mention your intentions here.) Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Gertrude, pray for us.

Day 9- Let us pray for our family members to return to the One True Faith. (Mention your intentions here.)Pray the Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy (below).St. Jude, pray for us.

Act of Consecration of the Family to The Divine Mercy

O Jesus, you showed us your infinite compassionate love by exhausting the very last drop of blood and water from your body. From this day forward, with full confidence, we entrust our families to Your Divine Mercy. We abandon our past, our present and our future. We place into your wounds all of our wounds which are caused by lack of love, understanding and trust. Jesus, expel Satan and all evil from our families, free us from the consequence of sin and protect us from further harm.Heal our wounds.May our families learn to venerate your Divine Image that they will never perish but experience your loving mercy.

Amen.Mary, Queen of Families, pray for us.Jesus, I trust in you.

With all the turmoil going on since the election, we are asking you to please join us in praying this prayer together. Let the Lord reign as we come to this Sunday's Feast of Christ the King. Feel free to pass this prayer along."Lord we pray for the breakthrough and the healing of the nation to manifest in power! We decree and declare Joel 2:25 written over the nation of the USA. . .that this is a day of restoration and recompense for the USA!We prayer for Donald Trump to have deeper encounters with Jesus and we pray and agree with the plans God has for him and this nation, that the Spirit of God will make him a man after God's own heart.That he would be crowned with wisdom and heavenly strategy in this season as he leads the nation and a great healing and awakening is ushered in. It's time for victory and triumph in the USA!Our hope is found in You alone Jesus, not a man.We pray that life, breakthrough, resurrection power, restoration and recompense will come as the Church unites in love, unity, honor of one another, mercy and prayer for one cause. . . .to see Jesus glorified and His Kingdom extended in the destiny He has for the USA!Lord we pray for increased angelic protection over Donald Trump and around him. We pray for angels of ascension to be stationed around him."Thank You Lord, that as we pray for his protection, and as we call on the angels of ASCENT,  Donald Trump will be lifted high above assassination attempts and NOT be touched or harmed.We pray that he will be lifted up by Your Spirit to a place where he will SOAR above the enemy's attempts and roar."We decree and declare LIFE over him and pray for assignments of the enemy to be canceled as angels of ascension come, ministering to him. . . . . .with the Spirit of God to lift him high above the storm and the assignments of the evil one.  In Jesus mighty name. Amen!

"Father of Life and Love, we thank you today that you have called us to share in the life of the one human family. We thank you for all our brothers and sisters, and ask You to deepen the bonds of love among us. We thank you especially for our youngest and smallest brothers and sisters, those in the womb. Today, Oh Lord, we remember them, while so many choose to ignore and forget them. We remember those who are living, and commend them to Your protection. We remember those who have died and we commend them to Your mercy.  We pray, Father, that we who are the living stones of the Church, may be witnesses to the dignity of life. Give us the grace to confront the evil of abortion and eliminate it. May we see the day when all people will remember abortion only as a thing of the past, and may praise You forever for the victory of life. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen."(Author Unknown)"O Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all, we turn to you today as the one who said 'Yes' to Life. 'You will conceive and bear a Son,' the angel told you. Despite the surprise and the uncertainty about how this could be, you said yes. 'Be it done unto me according to your word.' Mary, we pray today for all mothers who are afraid to be mothers. We pray for those who feel threatened and overwhelmed by their pregnancy. Intercede for them, that God may give them the grace to say yes and the courage to go on. May they have the grace to reject the false solution of abortion. May they say with you, 'Be it done unto me according to your word.' May they experience the help of Christian people, and know the peace that comes from doing God's will. Amen."(Author Unknown)

(Recommended by the Desert Nuns)​​

To be prayed to begin Novena each day:
My Jesus, by the sorrows You suffered in Your agony in the Garden, in Your scourging and crowning with thorns, in Your journey to Calvary, and in Your crucifixion and death, have mercy on the souls in Purgatory, and especially on those that are most forsaken; deliver them from the torments they endure; call them and admit them to Your most sweet embrace in Paradise, where You live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for Each Day of Novena (See Below)*Our Father…, Hail Mary…, Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. 

*Friday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood which Jesus Your Divine Son did shed this day upon the tree of the Cross, especially from His sacred hands and feet, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and particularly that soul for whom I am most bound to pray, in order that I may not be the cause which hinders You from admitting him quickly to the possession of Your glory, where he may praise You and bless You forevermore. Amen.

*Saturday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood which gushed forth from the sacred side of Your Divine Son Jesus in the presence and to the great sorrow of His Most Holy Mother, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and, among them all, especially that soul who has been the most devout to this noble Lady, that he may come quickly into Your glory, there to praise You in her, and her in You, through all the ages. Amen.

*Sunday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood which Your Divine Son Jesus shed in the Garden, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and especially that one which is the most forsaken of all, and bring him into Your glory, where he may praise and bless You forever. Amen.

*Monday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood which Your Divine Son Jesus shed in His cruel scourging, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and, among them all, especially that soul who is nearest to his entrance into Your glory, that he may soon begin to praise You and bless You forever. Amen.

*Tuesday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood of Your Divine Son Jesus that was shed in His bitter crowning with thorns, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and, among them all, particularly that soul who is in greatest need of our prayers, in order that he may no longer be delayed in praising You in Your glory and blessing You forever. Amen.

*Wednesday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Blood of Your Divine Son Jesus that was shed on the streets of Jerusalem, while He carried on His sacred shoulders the heavy burden of the Cross, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and especially the one who is richest in merits in Your sight, so that, having soon attained the high place in glory to which he is destined, he may praise You triumphantly and bless You forever. Amen.

*Thursday
O Lord God Almighty, I beseech You, by the Precious Body and Blood of Your Divine Son Jesus, which He Himself, on the night before His Passion, gave as meat and drink to His Beloved Apostles and bequeathed to His Holy Church to be the Perpetual Sacrifice and life-giving nourishment of His faithful people, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and, most of all, that soul who was most devoted to this Mystery of infinite love, in order that he may praise You therefore, together with Your Divine Son and the Holy Spirit in Your glory forever. Amen.​

By June-Klins - reprinted with permission
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Fr. Chris Alar, M.I.C., gave an excellent talk in August at a conference in Buffalo, New York, about Divine Mercy, and at one point, his talk brought me to tears. Father talked about a discussion he had as a young man (we will call him "Chris" because he was not a priest at that time) in 2003 with a priest regarding his grandmother's suicide in 1993. Chris told this priest that he was worried about his grandmother's soul, especially because in her last year of life she had stopped receiving the Sacraments and had turned her back on God and the Church. The priest told him to go home and pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for the salvation of his grandmother's soul. 

Chris, whose profession at that time was engineering, questioned the priest, "Father, I don't understand. My grandmother has been judged. There is nothing I can do to change that." The priest repeated his instructions to pray the Chaplet for her soul. Chris told the priest he did not want to be difficult, but he just did not understand. The priest said, "God knew back in 1993 that you would be here in 2003, and you would pray this Chaplet for your grandmother, and those graces will be allowed through the mercy of God to be taken back and showered upon the soul of your grandmother at the moment of her judgment to help her. This is why we need to pray for our loved ones and our families and our friends." Chris lamented that his grandmother had fallen away from the Church before she died, so Father pointed out that paragraph 1486 of St. Faustina's Diary says that Jesus comes to every soul three times at the moment of death. If the soul rejects Him after the first time, He goes away. But He comes back a second time. If the soul rejects Him again, He'll go, but He'll come back a third time. If the soul rejects Him a third time, the soul is lost forever. 

Chris was elated to hear this, since he felt his grandmother would never have rejected Jesus, because she was a good person. But then Father seemed to throw a monkey wrench at him, asserting, "We die in the state that we live." He explained that if we turn our backs on God, we will not recognize Him when He comes. Chris was crestfallen at that thought, since his grandmother had, in fact, turned her back on God. But the priest continued, "Without your prayers, She may not recognize Him, but with your prayers upon her soul at the moment of her judgment – because God is outside of time (there is no past or future for God, just one eternal now), He can take those graces from your prayers and shower them down on your grandmother, so maybe, just maybe, it's enough grace for her to turn around and say, 'Yes' to God." 

Father said that this is why St. John Paul II and others call us "mini co-redeemers." We are the Body of Christ and it is very important for us to pray for one another. Prayers can make a difference. A demon once told St. John Vianney that 80,000 souls avoided hell due to his prayers and sufferings. This is why we should offer up our prayers and suffering. Father continued, referencing paragraph 1698 of the Diary – which says that God's mercy sometimes touches souls at the last moment. Chris began to cry at the thought of such a merciful God. He decided right then and there to spend the rest of his life spreading this message of hope. And that he does.

Chris joined the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, was ordained a few years ago, and is now the director of the Association of Marian Helpers. 

Editor's note: If you would like to hear Father's entire talk, you can order the CD called​"Divine Mercy 101" by calling 1-800-462-7426, or visit the website marian.org. ​