Chaplet of Divine Mercy
On ordinary rosary beads. Begin with the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Apostles' Creed.
On each large bead:
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, the Soul and Godhead of your most dearly loved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to atone for our sins and for those of the whole world.
On each of the ten small beads:
For his sorrowful Passion's sake, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
After the five decades, three times:
Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Text: the chaplet card printed in Kraków in 1937, in our translation.
About this prayer
St Faustina Kowalska, a Polish sister, wrote that Jesus taught her this chaplet in Vilnius in September 1935. It was first printed on small cards in Kraków in 1937. It is prayed on ordinary rosary beads, often at three in the afternoon, the hour of Christ's death, and especially in the novena before Divine Mercy Sunday. Our translations are made from the Polish.