The Chaplet of Divine Mercy and the Beatification of Pope John Paul II

Included in the Liturgy for the Mass of Beatification of Pope John Paul II is the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

"The Message of Divine Mercy has always been near and dear to me. It is as if history had inscribed it in the tragic experience of the Second World War. In those difficult years it was a particular support and an inexhaustible source of hope, not only for the people of Krakow but for the entire nation.

This was also my personal experience, which I took with me to the See of Peter and which in a sense forms the image of this Pontificate.

I give thanks to Divine Providence that I have been enabled to contribute personally to the fulfilment of Christ's will, through the institution of the Feast of Divine Mercy. Here, near the relics of Blessed Faustina Kowalska, I give thanks also for the gift of her beatification. I pray unceasingly that God will have "mercy on us and the whole world" (Chaplet)."

Address of Pope John Paul II at the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow — 7 June 1997