20a. - 20k. Divine Mercy Section - Apostolate for Family Consecration

The Message: Divine Mercy is “that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which
raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights of the holiness of God.”
The Image: Those who gaze on the image of the merciful Jesus, hear like Blessed Faustina,
“Fear nothing, I am with you.”
Trust: ‘Those who sincerely say ‘Jesus, I trust in You’ will find comfort in all their anxieties
and fears.
The Church: regards the message of Divine Mercy as “the light of hope” and “unceasingly
implores mercy for all.”
Commends: “the concerns of the Church and humanity to the merciful Christ.”
Entrusts to the Divine Mercy: “once more [his] Petrine ministry, ‘Jesu Ufam Tobie!’ [Jesus, I
trust in You!].”
Personal Witness: “The message of Divine Mercy has always been near and dear to me.”
Pontificate: “I took with me [the message of Divine Mercy] to the See of Peter and which in a
sense forms the image of this Pontificate.”
Divine Mercy Sunday: “I give thanks to divine Providence that I have been enabled to
contribute personally to the fulfillment of Christ’s will through the institution of the Feast of
Divine Mercy [in Poland] .
Chaplet of The Divine Mercy: “I pray unceasingly that God will ‘have mercy on us and on the
whole world’” (Chaplet).
Challenge to the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy: “Accept the responsibility of your
extraordinary vocation! The people of today need your proclamation of Divine Mercy, your
works of mercy, and your prayer for mercy.”
Prayer for all: “May the Divine Mercy transform hearts … we all need it so much: as the
third millennium approaches.”
“I cordially bless all those devoted to the Divine Mercy.”
Homily
“Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo” [“I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever”
— Ps. 89:1].
I have come here to this shrine as a pilgrim to take part in the unending hymn in honor
of Divine Mercy. The psalmist of the Lord had intoned it, expressing what every generation
preserved and will continue to preserve as a most precious fruit of faith.
There is nothing that man needs more than Divine Mercy — that love which is
benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite
heights of the holiness of God.
In this place we become particularly aware of this. From here, in fact, went out the
Message of Divine Mercy that Christ himself chose to pass on to our generation through
Blessed Faustina.
And it is a message that is clear and understandable for everyone. Anyone can come here,
look at this image of the merciful Jesus, His Heart radiating grace, and hear in the depths of
his own soul what Blessed Faustina heard: “Fear nothing. I am with you always” (Diary,
586).