A good few years ago I learned of a new Jesus to be exact the Divine Mercy, I remember I was in a scrapyard looking for parts for my Ford Sierra and I opened the glove box of a scrapped car and inside was a Divine Mercy book I decided to take it home as I hadn't seen the book before and I was struck by his beautiful Image but more importantly were the words on the cover "Will You Help Me" a few weeks past and I was mowing the garden and heard an awful racket as something caught the blades to my surprise it was a divine mercy medal,fast forward a couple of years and I was occupied with a new business which involved printing deceased loved ones pictures on oval plaques for head stones after a while I found out that the technique I was using meant that after a year or two the images faded in direct sunlight so I decided that wasn't good enough being left with loads of ink and quite a few oval plaques I decided to print the Divine Mercy image on to them and give them away free of charge at a local church on Divine Mercy sunday thankfully every image was taken..Fast forward a few more years and recently my head has been all over the place so I wasnt really focused on anything religious to be honest, my youngest lifted the Divine Mercy diary of St Faustina and randomly handed it to me on opening the book I was struck by the Bold typed words. these are some of the quotes(not exact word for word) I have read/opened at over the past week or two in order. you are my delight I rest in you, Be still and patient, Go to your confessor, ( I did) I am sending to sisters to you for strength Be frank with your Confessor ( I was ) Receive me in communion ( I most certainly will) What a journey and beautiful words from my Jesus... Oh my Jesus I Trust in You
A great friend of mine, now deceased, had a great devotion to the Divine Mercy. He had been lapsed for many years but was healed of alcoholism at a Catholic Charismatic meeting and became very devout. He had four daughters and one son, none of whom practiced their religion. He prayed for them constantly but they and their spouses regarded him as extreme and obsessive in his, newly found, religious devotion. They seemed to prefer the former drunken version of their dad and father-in-law. Anyway, John gave each of his children a copy of the Divine Mercy Booklet and prayed that they might have some effect. One of his daughters took her booklet home and left it lying about. Her husband, a non-Catholic, was outraged and told her that she was not going to bring her father's obsession into their home and that she was to get rid of the booklet. She placed it in her bedside drawer and told him that she had thrown it away. Peace reigned but the daughter was quietly reading the booklet when her husband was out and was becoming convinced that she should return to the Church and wondered how she was going to handle the predictable problems with her husband. A few weeks later, early in the evening he had gone upstairs for a shower. The sound of the shower had stopped for about half an hour and she became concerned because all was silent upstairs. She went to their room to see whether he had fallen asleep following his shower and saw, in a mirror on the landing that he was sitting on the bed reading the booklet. She crept away and expected trouble. He came downstairs and said nothing about the booklet and made normal casual conversation. She checked and discovered that the booklet had been placed back in her bedside drawer. Time went on and she would occasionally check on his after-shower activity and each time, he was engrossed in the booklet. After several weeks, he mentioned that if she ever decided to go to Mass, he would be happy to go with her. She asked why and he said that he was just curious about what happened as he had never been to one. They went and he admitted afterwards that he had been looking for a comb and had looked in her bedside cabinet and come across the booklet, he had looked at the picture on the front and was moved by the image and so decided to read the contents and that, since he had begun reading it, he had started to believe. They had been unable to have a child and he said that he had prayed to Jesus, the first real prayer in his life and he believed that he would be heard. You guessed, 9 months later an exceptionally beautiful little girl blessed with two practicing Catholic parents.
These testimonies give me hope in the Divine Mercy. That is why I posted the prayer. Going through some situations now and could use some trust in Divine Mercy. Great testimonies.
This is one of the most moving threads In a while on MOG. Wonderful to read these stories, each a true little miracle! I’d love it if people would contribute more stories to this thread.
Thank you for sharing this Steve. What strikes me is how gentle and loving this story of conversion is. It took a considerable amount of time but the seed was planted and it took root. Maranatha.
Good to “see” you T! Many, many years ago before St. John Paul II officially recognized Divine Mercy Sunday and the novena that starts on Good Friday, were blessedly made aware of it through this event. My mother in law, a very devout woman, had a bad stroke several months before the Easter season one year. Along with the significant physical results of the stroke, she suffered great spiritual attack’s as well. My wife’s sister had been saying she wanted us to pray a novena for her mom and she would get it to us. Well time went on and she was afraid would miss the start date of Good Friday. Since this was before cell phone and easily sending things on a computer, she was going to read it over the phone for us to transcribe. That year my wife accompanied me after the Holy Thursday Mass to visit and spend time with the Lord. This was actual unusual- in fact it was the first time she decided to this with me. As we were about to leave our first visiting Church, a woman rushed after us and stopped us - she said she was not crazy and she proceeded to give us a Rosary beads made from Jerusalem and yes you guessed it the novena we were going to have to transcribe the next day. It was the Divine Mercy Novena! We still didn’t know what we had until the next day when my wife’s sister started to read it. But back first to Holy Thursday...when the woman placed the Rosary beads in my wife’s hands, my wife immediately said, these are not for me, but for our friend whose child is very ill and in fact dealing with a slow deteriorating condition which could take his life. When we saw our friend on Easter, we gave her the Rosary- since she was a Protestant she said how do you “use” them. And my wife said as a mother of a sick one, you go to the Mother of us All, and you ask her to pray for you and your child. We then taught her the Rosary. And her son’ s life threatening condition stopped (he still had other problems but is still here today). And maybe the bigger miracle, the following Easter Vigil, I was the sponsor for our friend as she entered the Catholic Church. And my wife’s mom while never recovering from her physically challenges, was completely healed of her spiritual and emotional distress. In fact, she was able to demonstrate for many, many years until her death how one suffers united to the Cross of Christ. She was always one if the most joyful persons I knew despite a stroke that debilitated her physically. She experienced a miracle that Easter season all through what I can only say was the intervention of the Holy Spirit and this wonderful chain of events tied to this great season of love and mercy. Happy Easter all. Peace
Happy Easter to you too, miker! Physical miracles often grab our attention, but spiritual healing brings about transformed hearts and fruitful lives. Joy is such a marvelous fruit. It is rooted in the certainty of Jesus' Love and undeterred by difficult circumstances! Combine it with the peace that usual accompanies it and such persons positively impact the lives around them with nary a word. Notice in Paul's list of fruits that joy follows immediately after love! Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
I saw on a twitter page where a Japanese couple were celebrating the husband's baptism and conversion to Catholicism after the wife had prayed for this for him for 60 years!!!! WOW.
The day I went to the cathedral to do my full confession I left with a Devin Mercy booklet, that evening I sat and read it and focused on the wonderful image of Jesus, said the Divine Mercy chaplet and had the most wonderful conversion which I wrote about here before. It was shortly after that I ended up here at the MOG forum. Divine Mercy is such a gift for us.
