The Divine Mercy Novena teleconference will begin on Good Friday, April 10 and will be prayed every evening through Saturday, April 18, 2020. Our prayer leaders for the Novena will be Chaplain Darlene Jackson along with Sodalists Marcia Taylor, Cynthia Morris and Sabrina Williams.
The scheduled time for each night (nine days) is 8:30 pm. Please invite your family members and friends to pray with us. The teleconference number is (605) 475.4000; Access code: 992259#. I will share the reference code for the Novena each day by email. The playback number in case you missed any day of the Novena is 605.475.4099 access code: 992259#.
Why We Pray the Divine Mercy Novena: In Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, Jesus revealed to Saint Faustina a nine-day novena that is to be prayed in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday.
During this novena that Jesus Himself revealed to Saint Faustina, He asks that each day be dedicated to prayers for a different grouping of people. The novena comes from private revelations of Saint Faustina as recorded in her Diary of Divine Mercy. The novena begins Good Friday and is prayed each day of the Triduum and of Easter Week in preparation for the glorious Feast of Mercy, Divine Mercy Sunday which is the Sunday after Easter Day.
I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fount of My mercy, that they may draw there from strength and refreshment and whatever graces they need in the hardships of life and, especially, at the hour of death. On each day you will bring to My Heart a different group of souls, and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy, and I will bring all these souls into the house of My Father. You will do this in this life and in the next. I will deny nothing to any soul whom you will bring to the fount of My mercy. On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My bitter Passion, for graces for these souls.