Jesus, I trust in You
The Divine Mercy Chaplet
An interactive, guided Divine Mercy Chaplet — with history, a complete how-to guide, every prayer, Scripture on mercy, and read-aloud audio.
What is the Divine Mercy Chaplet?
The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a short, powerful prayer for mercy — on us and on the whole world — prayed on ordinary Rosary beads and offering the Father the Passion of His Son.
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy is a devotional prayer given through the Polish nun Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938) and approved for the whole Church. It takes about seven minutes and is prayed on a standard set of Rosary beads, though the prayers themselves are entirely different from the Rosary.
Catholics pray it because it places the infinite merits of Christ's Passion before the Father: 'Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.' Every prayer of the Chaplet is an act of trust and of intercession — never only for oneself, but always 'for the whole world'.
The devotion is rooted in God's mercy, the truth that His love is greater than any sin and always ready to forgive the repentant heart. It is inseparable from the Passion of Christ: the wounded, pierced side of Jesus from which blood and water flowed is the fountain the Chaplet returns to again and again.
Saint Faustina recorded the prayers and the promises attached to them in her Diary, written under the direction of her confessors. Saint John Paul II canonised her in 2000 and established the Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday, giving the devotion its place in the Church's calendar.
About seven minutes
Short enough for a daily habit, complete enough to be a serious act of intercession.
Prayed on Rosary beads
The same five decades of beads, with different prayers — no special chaplet is required.
An act of trust
'Jesus, I trust in You' is the heart of the devotion and the words written on the Divine Mercy image.
For the whole world
Every petition asks mercy 'on us and on the whole world', making it a prayer of intercession.