Is Divine Mercy Satanic?! w/ Jimmy Akin 

I don't believe it. The Catholic Catechism forbids the worshipful veneration of images as they were the real thing

I don't believe it. The Catholic Catechism forbids the worshipful veneration of images as if they were the real thing

I don't believe it. The Catholic Catechism forbids the worshipful veneration of images as if they were the real thing

I don't believe it. The Catholic Catechism forbids the worshipful veneration of images as if they were the real thing

​@@truthhurtsalways4u Can you provide a link to that RU-vid video? Thanks.

I'm delighted to hear that you've seen truth in it but it's mixed with lies. Once you are well versed in apologetics, sound teachings I hope you will find heresies in the diary and the chaplet. I'm Polish, researched this subject, prayed over it and I'm asking you to do the same, to follow the truth. I contacted sisters in Lagiewniki, Cracow, Poland, and like many researchers was denied access to a copy of original manuscript of 'Diary'.

​@RG-iw7py Let's see. Jesus warned of a potential chastisement like the old testament God does several times but would rather you trust in his mercy. Which is consistent to how God acts and behaves throughout the old and new testament unless you want to start saying the old testament is straight up satanic. Nah you tripping.

​@@RG-iw7py"heresies" I am sure a schismatic doesn't have authority to determine what's heretical and not.

​@@RG-iw7py JP2 was polish and true catholic Pope and if it was good for him is good for me. Maybe St Faustina wrote end of time prophecies.

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Yep it happened also during my grandmother's deathbed. Without scents though

I learned today that Jesus told St Faustina to pray the Chaplet when a person is dying.

I had a similar experience when my father passed away 18 months ago. I use to help my dad to bed every night when he was dying of cancer. This one night he was breathing heavily, and couldn't open his eyes, so I held his hand and prayed the Divine mercy chaplet, and the holy Rosary. I managed to summons all our family to pray around him, as we finished the chaplet, he passed peacefully. The divine mercy is real, we are so fortunate to be in the eara of this massive plan of salvation for humanity. Take it with open arms, and God will welcome you with open arms in heaven.

Same. I prayed divine mercy chaplet while my dad was dying and I felt the heaviness really be lifted from my entire body. I felt such a sense of peace, like my body was floating and I felt no surer sense of relief of God's presence

Thanks for sharing your beautiful testimony Maria. God bless you. ❤

Amen. Demons only have the power God grants them. They are creatures and in no way equals.

Truth. The power God granted them when they were free. And once left God. They become discontinued from infinite power and reflection of God Father ultimate power. Obviously any demon could and would Physically mortally wound us if were not caring of our pride and God will allow them to excersize their power on humans who act stupidly.​@@unacceptablesisterpeter3431

Christ is King

Agreed

💯 Well said! Thank you for putting in words what I was thinking. When people get so hostile towards the idea of Jesus with the Holy Spirit working through His angels and saints, it's as if they're limiting what God truly does.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in you. (Fatima) Jesus I trust in You. (Faustina)

Logically with our minds it makes sense why pharisees such as Caiphas and roman soldier and thief on the cross were past tense disbelievers mockers and doubters because if i were existing then i wouldnt have believed him! Until of course i crucified him on the ❌🚫 cross! Me being in the position of Christs enemys Caiphas,Longinus,Thief on cross. Eventually believed christ. I believe the possibly true tale of Longinus. And definitely thief. But caiphas never repented and felt remorse. He was simply distraught and perhaps regret but that's not saying SORRY I SINNED LORD GOD to christ so he doesnt count as a true repentance. Only longinus and thief do. And so Christ accepted them all these two sinners into heaven. If makes sense that we should doubt faustina until we read it ourselves and convinced by God the fathers Great Works unseen by feeble minded feasible humans! God bless amen!

For me too!

@@IsraelCountryCube I also wonder where I would have stood as a Jew or Roman during the time of Christ. It's a daunting question, and, despite all the troubles of this present time, it makes me happy that I grew up in an era when the theology of who Jesus was and is has become very clear.

Please read about my miracle above

Did you buy the statue?

Same 🙂

Me too

Mee too, actually :one led to the other

Exactly! Even the one hour with Divine Mercy gives room for both

Me Tooooooo❤

I like him a lot. ❤

He’s a heretic

I have watched a lot of his videos and enjoy them very much!

​@@drjanitor3747 You are a heretic. 🤡

@@drjanitor3747 You sound as a heretic

The Church did suppress the devotion and St. Faustina’s writings for a time. Like the early Christians, though, God kept it from dying out and the DM order exploded from being persecuted down to 1 priest to a worldwide devotional practice with the Marians seeing new vocations and groups. After such a stringent process by Church authorities and St. Pope John Paul II not falling for satan’s trick (a group of anti-DM in the Vatican slipped a document to permanently ban the practice behind a huge stack of documents for him to sign, but that day he decided to start from the back and immediately made them go back and re-evaluate everything), anyone who claims the Divine Mercy as ‘satanic’ or ‘of the devil’ is considered foolish in my eyes.

Bc someone is a "canonized saint" doesn't mean everything they ever said was good & true and must be believed. St Christopher was a saint and then he was deleted bc no evidence of ever being real

I'd rather carry my cross with Jesus. That's the fruits of the gospels.

Sr Faustina was canonized by Pope JPII. But in one of her diary entries claims she saw demons tormenting souls in Purgatory. Contradicting the St Augustine who said that souls in Purgatory have already defeated the demonic and are saved therefore demons in Purgatory cannot be. This & other blunders appear there but JPII wanted her sainted by all means

I'd rather help others carry theirs gracefully

I agree. Most of the people at the Newman Center at my college do.

yeah not going to lie now i’m kind of scared to pray it 🙁

@@laurenlooolllDon’t be, it’s a beautiful prayer and the Lord gives many graces to those who pray it.

And we can't see it! We are all fighting with each other instead of loving each other, and we are calling all God's interventions evil. All going according to Satan's plan, people. Division and rejection of the means to save us.

Oh Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, save us and the whole world!

Same here. ❤

Same!!! Praying a different version with my family every night…and pray the rosary every night before bed and at other times during the day when I have the time to on certain days, so there goes the whole “divine mercy replaces the rosary” argument. Have a blessed Divine Mercy Sunday!

To waste time. Fueling ego. Behold the scholars we have

It’s because there are those who actually think it’s a demonic devotion. Have heard rumblings in my parish when we started reading about divine mercy.

Because Faustina claims she's more united to Christ than His mother (Who shares DNA) "Now, I know that it is not for the graces or gifts that you love Me, but because My Will is dearer to you than life. That is why I am uniting Myself with you so intimately as with no other creature."

@@GP-dp4mr Hmmmm. That IS quite weird. But as Jimmy says, that could be due to a translation issue. The fact that Pope John Paul II believed in the Divine Mercy as much as he did makes me inclined to accept it, too.

@@thekingchrissygwho exactly is attempting to boost their ego?

Thanks for sharing. ❤

I dont think nor feel , and i know lack the intuition my soul is being saved. Are these prayers really useful? I can judge them because they havent been caught really doing much of anything while i pray them and after. I have mabey more than 5 but i dont pray them at all. I have 30+ religious material worth of hours of prayer that i couldn't finish in one year. But im in doubt. Im sorry Jesus just please if i pray this prayer clean my from my stupid chocies and disgusting desire to lust!!!!

What interesting is, the Novena of DM have the intentions of Christ Himself instead of our own intentions like other traditional novenas.

​@@IsraelCountryCubemany great figures of the faith have experience doubt and bleak times. You arent alone. Keep praying, even when you dont feel like it, even when you feel it is doing no good. This period will pass. I'll pray for you, ok?

What a beautiful dream ❤

Literally no priest ever believed Faustina was more united to Christ than Mary yet here we are...... "Now, I know that it is not for the graces or gifts that you love Me, but because My Will is dearer to you than life. That is why I am uniting Myself with you so intimately as with no other creature."

​@@GP-dp4mr She is saying that she united herself to Christ more than to any creature, not that Christ is united to her the most of all creatures. So your claim is wrong.

"literally every priest on earth celebrating the Holy Mass." Then why are you praying as a mantra the prayer that is only proper to a sacerdotal priest? Does this not confuse and mix together two different things? 1) The Holy Eucharist IS the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus the Son of God offered for atonement/propitiation of sins - not the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which is just a devotional prayer (sacramental). The Divine Mercy Chaplet is not the actual Blessed Sacrament (the Holy Eucharist). 2) Lay people are not priests and therefore cannot offer the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ to the Father - only an ordained sacerdotal priest can do that because he shares in the single High Priesthood of Jesus Christ - Who it is that offers Himself to the Father on our behalf through the action/words of one of his human priests at the Words of Consecration. Lay people can only offer the sacrifice in union with the priest, not without him. So again, why would one pray a repetitious prayer of offering - "I offer" - as if they were themselves a sacerdotal priest? At the least end of the spectrum, this confuses people about their role and that of the priest and conflates these two things which is very much a problem in the Novus Ordo world. Jimmy's answers are weak - he seems desperate to defend the sunk ship of a post-Vatican 2 wreck - he has a lot invested in that ship - which in truth is NOT the bark of Peter.

At Fatima, the angel made the children pray an even more explicit version of the priestly sacrifice prayer look it up. I pray it very often. You're uneducated about the devotional practices of reparation of sins, you should stop speaking in pride and submit to the Church.

​​@@user-zg7rj4eu6t It doesn't confuse it at all. Firstly, you're assuming that these words are sacred such that it is "only proper to a sacerdotal priest". If such is the case, the devotion wouldn't allow for it. Do you really think the Pope (and the magisterium) would promulgate something "only proper to priests", something obviously not in the See's interest? Finally, of all the objections to the DM noted, this prayer's involvement is NOT one of them, at best it's a fringe theory that seemingly no one, lay or religious, takes seriously.

Agree. They don't believe God is true merciful even though St Theresa said that one of the biggest issues with Catholics is that we don't believe enough in our Lord's Mercy.

In describing the vision of hell at Fatima, Lucia said souls were falling into the flames like snowflakes.

God's mercy is always balanced by his divine justice. They are so connected that if we pray for justice He will grant mercy.

@@peaceandlove544 I think St. Theresa was saying that we don't even deserve to be alive for another second because of our sins yet God sustains us and gives us chance after chance to change. Even to the last seconds of our life He gives us the opportunity to make an act of true contrition and be saved; He is indeed a God of unfathomable mercy. Yet many many souls don't appreciate this gift and refuse to convert; that's when God shows his justice.

It brings people to the Vatican2 sect but not true Catholicism.

​@@drjanitor3747 If you believe there are two forms of Catholicism, you need to take that to confession as a mortal sin. As a practising Catholic, you are forbidden form dividing the body of Christ, regardless of your preferred form of liturgy.

@@hynjus001 of course there isn’t two forms, there’s true traditional Catholicism then there’s the Protestant Vatican2 sect.

Your a lefevrist aren’t you.@@drjanitor3747

There is no Vatican 2 sect. The Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires supervised at the time by the now Pope Francis, and compared by blood test to an 8th century Eucharistic Miracle, conclusively proved Vatican 2 did not do away with the sacraments nor could it. Moreover God chose Buenos Aires to defend his future Pope Francis. Go to confession.

Really?? Do you accept Faustina is more united to Christ than the Mother of God herself? "Now, I know that it is not for the graces or gifts that you love Me, but because My Will is dearer to you than life. That is why I am uniting Myself with you so intimately as with no other creature."

​@@GP-dp4mr I love reciting the Divine Mercy chaplet, and I have found it quite powerful in my own testimony, but in terms of that quote, I suppose it could be said Mary is no longer a creature on Earth by the time of Sister Faustina's writings; however, I have seen someone else write this, and it does concern me. Is there a proper answer someone can provide to rebut this? Is it a translation issue?

@@DelioJez creature can mean those in heaven or on earth including angels, this is very troubling imo Regarding the devotion itself, I struggle to reconcile this and the sacred heart devotion?

Lol. Meanwhile the “pope” blesses same sex unions, but traditionalists are the Protestants. 🤡

@@GP-dp4mr Yes, it can mean that, though the context of the writing, like prior and after that paragraph, may be relevant to identify it as earthly creature, but I don’t know what that context is as I don’t have it in front of me. What do you mean you struggle to reconcile it with the Sacred Heart Devotion? Thanks

I have been saying one traditional rosary (all three mysteries) and lately other rosaries. This is why I don' t have time.

@@steveisaak4320 it’s all private revelation, be at peace, sibling in Christ.

@@MikePasqqsaPekiM private revelation?

Excellent point!! 😅🇨🇦🙏

​@steveisaak4320 watch the video before commenting lol

Yeah I have no clue where they get this "no repentance" stuff. I always think of it as the reminder to keep perseverance in repentance and personal reform because Christ will always forgive when I fall and repent. There's always hope, which is one of the Big 3.

Spot on. Sometimes I do not know if they are either so sure of their salvation and anyone below their standards should rot in Hell, or they really love to fear. Divine Mercy is absolute gift and Grace. Having few minutes? Going like this...Dear Lord there is a dying person somewhere, right now, someone who is not prayed for. Someone who is in great danger of going to Hell. If it is according to your will please take this prayer as it is prayed for that soul according to your choice. This idea came to me from above, I believe. I did not know for which the next pray should be offered and the mentioned appeared in my mind. :)

@@daxdax4528 That's so lovely thank you! :)

Satan hates the prayer because it focuses on God's victory.

I think you meant to say "I wouldn't think that Satan would encourage people to go to confession"... right?

@youareblessedyouareloved928 😀 Thank you, that's exactly what I meant. I talk text on my phone, and it it's kind of like a child, in one ear and out the other, and then makes its own decisions🤣

I think Chaplet fine AFTER Rosary Isn’t there a suggestion (psychologically) maybe do whatever you want, all wiped clean DM Sunday

Same

The Rosary as Mary asked for it at Fatima and as it was prayed for most of the history of Catholicism had 15 decades, not 5. Unless you did mean 15, in which case, very well.

The only way it should be

It’s a very dumb argument, it comes from lefevrists. St. Faustian was vindicated in 1976, Lefevre broke off from the Church in 1975, hence his followers still believe the erroneous status quo of pre-1976 which is a bad translation of her diary. Furthermore Divine Mercy Sunday is officially promulgated by the church as of 2000! (Which the children of lefevre reject due to their schism)

Well as a traditional Catholic, many Catholics going way over the top with the private revelation stuff, sometimes putting it above scripture and traditional teaching. I thought orthodox taught against mental imaginations during prayer?

@@TA-yw7ceCorrect.

@@TA-yw7ce clarify what you mean by mental imagination

Not necessarily but still He had the biggest wound of His sacred heart with the red and blue lights of water and blood coming out

agreed

The point of His image is the focus on His Merciful heart - not the sacrificial wounds of His crucifixion. 🙏🕊

@@ocay2854I delayed putting up a crucifix for a long time but had DM pic up….Something is wrong with that Crucifix represents our salvation Paul: I preach Christ crucified

Well said

So we are told to focus on Agony, Scourging, Thorns, Carrying Cross & Crucifixion each decade of Chaplet? Jesus name said middle of every Hail Mary I’d only pray it AFTER Rosary

@@scootahscoot9389 Nice, I usually say the Divine Mercy Chaplet after my rosary.

@@jimmydarm I fell into the trap of praying instead of Rosary Akin: She didn’t say only rosary on rosary Well she didn’t say replace rosary, that’s for sure

She only mentions Rosary once in her Diary?

I never knew that, I did thought it was odd that there were two versions but actually assumed the first one should be the best 😅

@@jonatikaWwe I actually wrote a blog post on blogger that describes the history of the Divine Mercy Image, and why that second version by Adolf Hyla plays a special role there. krakowski-ruch-katolikow.blogspot.com/2023/07/three-generations-of-artists-from.html

@@scottritz7520 My point is rather to do with the involvement of St John Paul II in the institution of the Divine Mercy devotion. And the role Hyla's version played in his life, as if it were placed in his biography by Providence.

The artwork I see associated with the images cringy it actually repels me from reading more about it. And Lord knows I need Mercy but ugh, I hate it!

@@cmcc9589 Perhaps you're partly right! In her diary, St Faustina wrote that when she saw the original first version, she was so dissapointed with it she wept a good deal (Diary 313). However, it was the second version that sparked John Paul II's interest in the Divine Mercy devotion. The author's name was Adolf Hyla, and he painted it soon after Faustina's death. www.saint-faustina.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/01/Cudowny-obraz-Jezusa-Milosiernego-z-Sanktuarium-w-Krakowie.jpg

And the Hail Mary says Jesus middle of every prayer Rosary also says Oh Sacrament most holy…

Why are you not focused on the Mass?

​@@unacceptablesisterpeter3431right?!?

X​@@unacceptablesisterpeter3431this is an old practice: to pray the rosary during Mass that was no longer possible after the new Mass came along... I do it during the offertory, there's just enough time for it. It's participating in offering Jesus's Body and Blood, soul and divinity to God the Father, alongside the priest. The Lord asks sister Faustina to do it at times too, in her diary. It's a beautiful practice.❤❤❤

​@@unacceptablesisterpeter3431wow such rude attitude! 😡😔 Keep to yourself punk! 😉😠

@@unacceptablesisterpeter3431 It's an old practice, that was not possible after introducing Novus Ordo.... Our Lord also asked St. Faustina to pray it during Mass at times. :) At TLM, there is enough time and silence to do it. Especially during the offertory. It is very beautiful. I recommend it! ❤❤

Should you be telling people to leave the Church?

Very well said. Thank you & kudos for having a working compass in a sea full of rudderless boats. 💯 🎯❤👍 😊

I have a hard time when people in general say prayers are bad. There's nothing in the words to the chaplet that's in err. Praying is about expressing your heart to God. I agree to pray the ones that you connect with. So much legalism. It's about control.

@@rdg6543 We are NOT obligated to accept theological errors regardless who approved them and her diary contains numerous serious theological errors. Not the least of which where she claims that souls in Purgatory are tormented by demons vs the Catholic Catechism that says that souls in Purgatory are already saved and are there for purgation. Therefore there will not be demons present. The DM prayers themselves are NOT a problem. It's the origin of her visions that's questionable.

It's just something to fight about. That's the real issue here - distraction. Go live your life and enjoy God and talk to him, and don't get caught up in legalism.

And I'm not directing it at you, I just mean "you" as in general.

Amen , both and , not either or.

Amazing how they don’t accept HIS Divine Mercy!

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Exactly. It is like saying you can only admire, or have devotion to, one saint, or you can only work on one virtue at a time, or obey only one Commandment . . . because, there are only so many hours in a day! Nonsense.

Aren't LDS heretics

@@user-ud6dx8ti2j I thought that too but I learned that they aren’t considered heretics but a completely new religion

No way we found the clown who seems to question The Divine Mercy. You are getting a such a good thing which is basically infinite aka God's mercy and you are basically refusing it due to some baseless conspiracy. If you are questioning the Divine Mercy (which I hope you aren't) I will just say this if it was demonic we would have had millions of people of who pray this prayer being possessed by demons which clearly isn't the case, otherwise we would have had reports of religious people using super human strength or screeching out like madmen.

@@denniselroy4517 You clearly misunderstood (or completely missed) my point. I was clearly stating why it being a private revelation should not call into question its authenticity after it has been given approval by the local Bishop and the Pope. How did you miss that?

Great comment; I was just at the Holy Rosary chapel in Bologna Italy last lent what an experience gorgeous Basilica of St Dominic. Yes I thought the Rosary was given to Blessed Allan who was from the south of France who brought it to St Dominic still researching this. It is possible because the rosary was being used to defeat heresies by Dominic in the south of France first.

Thank you!!!! Especially right before Divine Mercy Sunday.

Nothing at all. Just certain groups of people (mainly radical trads) trying to gate-keep the Church so she looks more like what they imagine her to have been before “modernism” took over. Most of the Divine Mercy spreaders have no issue saying praying the Rosary is also great, as they understand the dual role of the Sacred and Immaculate hearts. I’m still praying for a big St. Joseph style of devotion, so we can have the Sacred, Immaculate, and Chaste hearts all together.

Exactly what I was thinking

Some of us value these conversations and care about the salvation of ourselves and the people Go watch the thousands of testimonies of people who go to hell and heaven

@@user-ud6dx8ti2j my dear friend in Christ, I too value these conversations! I just couldn’t believe that a Catholic could possibly think that the apparitions to St. Faustina about the mercy of Jesus could be of Satanic origin. Perhaps I may have sounded sarcastic - my bad!

Only God knows our hearts

@@peaceandlove544 Amen

Amen!!!

Yeeaaah, considering the sun had danced and literal Wars were predicted, whether we believe that the original Sister was assassinated and replaced by a communist or it was actually her. I do feel like Polish communist subversion could still be prevalent to this day and it is wickedly scary.

In Divine Mercy you are praying “Eternal Father. i offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of your beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.” Just like in Catholic Mass all prayers are offered up to the Father through Christ

They are both the same We can pray to both our Father and Christ Pray to both

I'm skeptical of the devotion but hearing about the possibility that my family could be saved through the divine mercy is what brought me into Catholicism. It doesn't hinge on me REMAINING Catholic as I'm starting to take a more grim tint on it, thanks to the unfortunately sound writings of the majority of saints who took a public stand on the matter, but it got me in. I think it might be helpful, it might be harmful, but I don't know if it's true. The tabernacle stuff, the stuff you pointed out, the promises... I don't know what to think of it.

I read the Diary over and over. There is no place where Faustina is given a higher place of honor than our Lady. That is an interpretation only and personal perspective of a reader ONLY. Beware those that put words in Our Lord's mouth.

Like what things?

She claimed that Jesus said he was uniting himself to her so intimately as with no other creature. She also claimed that Jesus told her she was purer that angels. Those types of claims are suspect to me because why would Jesus elevate her even above Mary? But they said in this video that there were translation errors so I’m hoping that’s all it is. I will have to look into that more.

​@@Intrepid_InsomniacChrist didn't elevate her above our blessed mother He just said she was purer than some angels which makes sense because angels have fallen before

God bless you

Jesus doesn't say to live your best life dude Jesus says to deny yourself and pick up your cross and follow him

@@user-ud6dx8ti2j Well, is that not your best life?

Flew off?

I think @mrsandmom5947 is referring to when the Eucharist flew off the altar into Faustina’s hands three times?

Exactly

Please read my comment.

Yep, and she had him paint it so much, trying to make it perfect that even Jesus had to basically tell her it's good enough 🤣

You are a lefevrist aren’t you, stop rejecting the authority of the living magisterium and things will clear up for you. (I used to be a lefevrist also)

Very well said. Thank you & kudos for having a working compass in a sea full of rudderless boats. 💯 🎯❤👍 😊 (And I'm NOT a Lefevre-ist)

First of all, it's merely a depiction. Second, that is the "blood and water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus" as seen on the Cross. Did not His most Sacred Heart pour out blood and water? This devotion, in fact, can complement devotion to His Most Sacred Heart. I think we can get too caught up on things such as this. Is not something that encourages us to lean on His love and mercy a good thing? May God's love and blessings be upon you and your loved ones.

First of all a picture of a picture of a picture is *NOT Jesus.* Secondly, the blood water burst from His right side therefore symbolizing the new covenant and His church. The DM image shows the blood & water emerging from the center of the chest and that is *NOT* biblical. Thirdly, the Divine Mercy devotion *Demands confidence in an image beyond that allowed by the church* "I demand the worship of My mercy thru the solemn celebration of the feast and thru the veneration of the image which is painted. *By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls.* It is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy bcz even the strongest faith is of no avail w/o works" (veneration of the image = works)(Diary 742) Vs: Catechism of Trent: "It is clear that there are two chief ways in which God’s majesty can be seriously outraged. The first way is by worshipping idols and images as God, or believing that they possess any divinity or virtue entitling them to our worship, by praying to, or reposing confidence in them, as the Gentiles did, who placed their hopes in idols, and whose idolatry the Scriptures frequently condemn." So then the Catechism prohibits having confidence in the image which is demanded by the devotion

...actually 10 especially if you pray the "optional" opening and closing prayers, which are mighty powerful!

One of the most powerful prayers we can say, especially for the dying.