April 21, 2025 Reflection – Easter Monday – Divine Mercy Novena Day 4

Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us!

April 21, 2025

Dear Family of Mary!

In our Gospel today, Mary Magdeline encounters the Risen Jesus as she is returning from the empty tomb. She is overcome with joy!! And Jesus sends her off to tell his brothers to go to Galilee, where He will meet them. There was other way to share the incredible news, than by person! What a joy it must have been to tell the brethren that she had seen the Lord!!

In our Divine Mercy Novena today we pray for those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know Him. Jesus wants so much for them to come to faith in Him! We know that Blessed Carlo Acutis was equally zealous for these souls, and did all he could to awaken faith in them. His zeal was similare to that of Mary Magdeline!! May we also have this zeal to tell the world about Jesus!!Let’s pray our novena prayer before the Canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and then the Divine Mercy novena prayer for Easter Monday:

Before the Canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis:

Dear Mary our Mother and Queen of Peace, you have told us: “Invoke the help of all the Saints for them to be an example and a help to you.” With joy we invoke the help of Carlo Acutis soon to be declared Patron Saint of the internet. May we all, especially the young whose lives are engulfed by the internet, receive the grace to follow his example and use the internet for God and for the Good. And may Our Lady of Medjugorje, through the internet exorcize Satan as prince of the world, and through that same internet may her beauty fill her children everywhere with heaven!

Easter Monday Divine Mercy Novena prayer:

Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know Me. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

We pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy…
https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/pray-the-chaplet

Thank you for praying with us! May this Easter Week be filled with light and joy for all of you!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV

PPS. Denis and Cathy will pray the Divine Mercy Novena
during Hour of Mercy –
3:00 PM Medjugorje time on Mary TV!
Join us!