Jesus, I Trust in You
The Divine Mercy Chaplet
No sin is greater than the mercy of God. This short, tender prayer — given to a humble nun for our anxious age — pleads for that mercy upon ourselves and upon the whole world. However far you feel, His mercy reaches farther.
Where It Comes From
In the 1930s, a humble Polish nun, St. Faustina Kowalska, received a series of revelations of Jesus as the Divine Mercy. He appeared to her with rays of red and pale light streaming from His heart, and asked that an image be painted with the words, “Jesus, I trust in You.”
Through St. Faustina — whose visions are recorded in her Diary — the Lord gave the Church the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, a simple prayer for mercy “on us and on the whole world,” to be prayed especially for sinners and the dying.
In the year 2000, Pope St. John Paul II canonized St. Faustina and established Divine Mercy Sunday on the Second Sunday of Easter — declaring mercy the message the world most needs to hear.
“Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet.”
How to Pray the Chaplet
It is prayed on ordinary rosary beads and takes only a few minutes.
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Begin
On the crucifix and opening beads, make the Sign of the Cross and pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and the Apostles' Creed.
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On each large bead
Pray the chaplet's offering of Christ to the Eternal Father, given in St. Faustina's Diary (no. 476).
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On each of the ten small beads
Pray the chaplet's short plea for mercy, made through Christ's Passion (Diary, 476).
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Repeat for five decades
Pray the large-bead and small-bead prayers through all five decades of the rosary.
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Conclude
Pray the chaplet's closing invocation three times (Diary, 476).
The chaplet’s prayers, in the Marian Fathers’ translation of St. Faustina’s Diary: How to pray the Chaplet, at thedivinemercy.org ↗
Three O’clock
The Hour of Great Mercy
Our Lord asked that we honour the hour of His death. At three o’clock each afternoon, pause — even for a moment — to recall His Passion and to ask His mercy for the whole world. Pray the Chaplet if you can, or simply stop for a moment of prayer.
St. Faustina’s prayer for this hour, in the Marian Fathers’ translation: The Hour of Great Mercy, at thedivinemercy.org ↗
Ask in confidence
Questions about Divine Mercy?
Ask anything and receive the Church’s own words — quoted, cited, and linked to the source. Tap a question to begin, or write your own.
Trust, and begin
You do not have to feel worthy. You only have to trust. Pray the Chaplet once today, for yourself and for someone who needs mercy.
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