Have mercy on my. Your mercy, Your grace Your love, are my strength. Your mercy clears my mind, renews my soul, reminds me I am the loved child of a loving Father eho knows my needs before I ask. Your mercy kindles love in my heart, wisdom in my mind, life in my human being. Have mercy on me.
Dear God, forgive me, I know I have not always lived according to Your word. I have not always honored Your will, but You love me anyway. Today I confess to You my faculties as a human, and ask that You send You Spirit to heal me of the thoughts, habits, and beliefs that keeop me from full realization of You in my being and life. Forgive me for anything I have done consciously or unconsciously to push You out of my life.
Dear God, restore me. Restore me to the state of peace in my mind, love my heart, balance in my soul with which You created me. Restore my faith in myself and my life. Restore discipline in my spirit and my deeds and my desire to know and serve You with all my heart and soul, tha I may have my eyes opened to the miraculous nature of Your being.
the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to our neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to absolve yourself from it. (Diary 742)
In the primitive Church Holy Saturday was known as Great, or Grand, Saturday, Holy Saturday, the Angelic Night, the Vigil of Easter, etc. It is no longer, like Maundy Thursday, a day of joy, but one of joy and sadness intermingled; it is the close of the season of Lent and penance, and the beginning of paschal time, which is one of rejoicing.
Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good Friday. He gave St. Faustina an intention to pray for on each day of the Novena, saving for the last day the most difficult intention of all, the lukewarm and indifferent of whom He said:
"These souls cause Me more suffering than any others; it was from such souls that My soul felt the most revulsion in the Garden of Olives. It was on their account that I said: 'My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass Me by.' The last hope of salvation for them is to flee to My Mercy."
In her diary, St. Faustina wrote that Jesus told her:
"On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy ... On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the graces for these souls.(Diary 1209, 796)"
