Daily Prayers
Consecration to the Divine Mercy
Taken from the Diary of St.
O Greatly Merciful God, Infinite Goodness,
today all mankind calls out from the abyss of its misery
to your mercy, to your compassion,
O God; and it is with its mighty voice of misery that it cries out.
Gracious God, do not reject the prayer of this earth's exiles.
O Lord, Goodness beyond our understanding,
who are acquainted with our misery through and through,
and know that by our own power we cannot ascend to you,
we implore you: anticipate us with your grace
and keep on increasing your mercy in us,
that we may faithfully do your holy will
all through our life and at death's hour.
Let the omnipotence of your mercy
shield us from the darts of our salvation's enemies,
that we may with confidence, as your children,
await your final coming — that day known to you alone.
And we expect to obtain everything promised us by Jesus
in spite of all our wretchedness,
for Jesus is our Trust: through his merciful Heart,
as through an open gate, we pass through to heaven. Amen.
Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, 1570
About the prayer
Faustina Kowalska (entry 1570), written in Poland in the 1930s and published after the Second World War. Pope St. John Paul II canonized Faustina in 2000 and established Divine Mercy Sunday for the Second Sunday of Easter; this act of entrustment is commonly prayed on that day and during the Divine Mercy novena.
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