2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY BLESSING FOR THE IMAGE ON THE FEAST OF MERCY V.

Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who made Heaven and Earth. V. The lord be with you R. And with your spirit Let us pray; Almighty, eternal God, You have allowed pictures and statues of Your Saints to be painted and carved, so that as often as we look upon them with our bodily eyes, we may recall with our more inward eyes their deeds and their sanctity and learn to imitate them. In Your goodness, therefore, bless and sanctify, this picture fashioned to reveal to us the unfathomable love of our Crucified and Risen saviour Divine Mercy Personified- and to recall to our minds the streams of Blood and Water gushing forth from His pierced heart to be a fount of mercy for us. Grant to all who invoke Your Mercy with this picture before their eyes, the grace of true repentance, pardon and peace. Shield them from every danger to soul and body. Loving Saviour, establish in this picture the Throne of Your Mercy. Pour out upon all who approach it with faith and trust, the purifying, healing and sanctifying rays of grace ever emanating from it as from a blazing sun. Gaze upon them from it as you did from the Cross with irresistible love and compassion. Through this Image may Your Divine Mercy triumph over all the powers and wiles of Satan the world over. May all who venerate it never perish. May it be their joy in life, their hope in death and their glory in eternity. This we ask through Christ Our Lord. Amen. OPENING PRAYER You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and an ocean of mercy opened up for the world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty yourself out upon us. (1319) O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us. Trust in you! (84) THE OUR FATHER. THE HAIL MARY. THE APOSTLES CREED I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord who conceived by the holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the father Almighty. From thence He shall come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. Then on the large bead before each decade: Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. On the ten small beads of each decade, say: Leader: - For the sake of his sorrowful Passion Response: - Have mercy on us and on the whole world. Conclude by saying three times: Leader: - Holy God, Holy Mighty One, holy Immortal One, Response: - Have mercy on us and on the whole world. CLOSING PRAYER Eternal god, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. EXPOSITION SAINT FAUSTINAS PRAISES The love of God is the flower Mercy the fruit. Let the doubting soul read these considerations on Devine Mercy and become trusting: Response to each petition: - I trust in You. At the End:Let us Pray:Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your Holy Will, which is love and mercy itself. O incomprehensible and limitless mercy Devine, who can extol and adore You worthily? TIME FOR SILENT PRAYER & ADORATION Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) available.
NINTH DAY OF THE NOVENA

Today bring to me souls who have BECOME LUKE WARM And immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in

the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will. For them the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy. Most Compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of your Most Compassionate heart. In this fire of Your pure love let these tepid souls, who, like corpses, filled you with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of your mercy and draw them into the very ardour of Your love; and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond your power. Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross, let them too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen. DIVINE PRAISES. You are the Bread of Life. ALLELUIA! You are the Bread of Salvation. ALLELUIA! You are the Blood that redeemed us. ALLELUIA! You are the source of our joy. ALLELUIA! You are the Bread that feeds us. ALLELUIA! You are the Blood that quenches our thirst. ALLELUIA! You are the bread that comforts us. ALLELUIA! You are the bread gives us strength. ALLELUIA! You are the bread that heals us in body and mind. ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! Prayer, Blessing After the Blessing:O Sacrament most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All Praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine!