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  2. Divine Mercy (Catholic devotion) - Wikipedia

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    The Divine Mercy devotion is a Catholic devotion to the mercy of God associated with the reported apparitions of Jesus to Faustina Kowalska. [1]The Divine Mercy devotion is composed of several practices such as the Divine Mercy Sunday, the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy or the Divine Mercy image, which Kowalska describes in her diary as "God's loving mercy" towards all people, especially for sinners.

  3. Chaplet of the Divine Mercy - Wikipedia

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    It invokes the Divine Mercy that is given to the humanity from the cross of Jesus. Blood and water from his side pierced by a spear (John 19:34) symbolizes the grace of sacraments: help and forgiveness (cf. Diary 299). This is also the meaning of the red and white ray in the Divine Mercy image.

  4. Faustina Kowalska - Wikipedia

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    That same year, he also consecrated the world to Jesus of Divine Mercy at the Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków. [53] He died in April 2005, on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, and was himself beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, on Divine Mercy Sunday, 1 May 2011, and was canonized by Pope Francis on Divine Mercy Sunday, 27 April 2014.

  5. Divine mercy - Wikipedia

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    The words used in the Bible in Hebrew to designate mercy, including divine mercy, are rakham (Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 55:7), khanan (Deut. 4:31) and khesed (Nehemiah 9:32). [2]In the Greek of the New Testament and of the Septuagint, the word most commonly used to designate mercy, including divine mercy, is eleos.

  6. Rosary-based prayers - Wikipedia

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    The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy was introduced and propagated by Faustina Kowalska, a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. According to her diary ( Diary 474-476) , on 13 and 14 September 1935, this chaplet was dictated to her directly by Jesus Christ during visions when she was at the convent of ...

  7. Chaplet (prayer) - Wikipedia

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    A chaplet is a form of Christian prayer which uses prayer beads, and which is similar to but distinct from the Rosary. Some chaplets have a strong Marian element, others focus more directly on Jesus Christ and his Divine Attributes (the Divine Mercy Chaplet ), or one of the many saints , such as the Chaplet of St Michael .

  8. Divine Mercy image - Wikipedia

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    The veneration of the Divine Mercy image also takes place in conjunction with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Novena. [3] [22] The Vatican biography of Kowalska states that the veneration of the Divine Mercy image is part of the second component of her message, "entreating God's mercy for the whole world". [23]

  9. Censorship of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    For two years in the 1950s, churches were banned by the pre-democracy KMT regime from using Chinese Bibles written with Latin letters instead of Chinese characters. The ban was lifted with an encouragement to use Chinese characters. A 1973 Taiwanese translation of the New Testament was the product of cooperation between Protestants and ...