How Divine Mercy Came to Be

Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar

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🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jesus told St. Faustina that Divine Mercy was mankind's last hope of salvation. So how did it come to be? The Feast, Image, Novena, Chaplet, and Hour of Mercy make up the Divine Mercy Devotion, but how as it spread around the world? What was the spark that came from Poland that Jesus said would prepare the world for his final coming? Hear Fr. Chris Alar explain this incredible story and how the Marian Fathers are playing a critical role in the salvation of the world and how you can be a part of it. Support our Ministries here.
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Chris Alar and welcome to a special edition of Explaining the Faith.
0:05.7	Today, we are not going to be talking about theology. Well, not in depth.
0:10.6	We're not going to be giving church teaching, at least not in depth.
0:14.2	What we are going to do is tell an amazing story. This will be a shorter talk, but it'll be an
0:19.7	incredible story. Did you ever wonder how
0:22.7	divine mercy came to be and what it was that made God want this message spread around the world
0:30.4	to us today at this point in history. And it's integral with the Marians of the Immaculate
0:37.1	Conception and you as Marian helpers.
0:39.9	Shall let us begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
0:47.0	Heavenly Father, we ask you to send the Holy Spirit down upon us to open our hearts and minds
0:52.5	to receive the grace you wish to bestow this grace
0:56.0	of divine mercy through St. Faustina. And we ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
1:03.0	In the name of the Father and to the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. All right, how divine mercy came to be. We did an EWTN show on this on Wednesday, and it's a little bit different. I added some things. I took some things out. So I want to hope that we can get this message of this story spread. Now, the devotion of divine mercy as given by Jesus and explained by St. Faustina
1:31.3	was something in the 1930s that Jesus gave us for our times. But the message goes all the way
1:39.2	back to the Garden of Adam and Eve. It's biblical, the message of divine mercy, but the devotion that Jesus gave
1:47.4	to St. Faustina. And by devotion, we mean the feast of divine mercy, the image of divine mercy,
1:53.8	the Navina, the chaplet, and the hour of divine mercy. You've heard us say Finch. Those are the
2:00.4	five devotional aspects that Jesus
2:03.7	gave to St. Faustina. And it has been spread around the world, but how? By the Marian fathers.
2:11.3	It began in the early 1940s after Jesus told St. Faustina that a spark would come from Poland to prepare the world for
2:21.0	his final coming. And we're going to talk about what that spark is and was in a minute. Now, well,
2:29.5	you know what? I think it's probably really good to be able to bring it up right now. The spark began,
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