Divine Mercy Chaplet Counter

Who uses a Divine Mercy chaplet counter

Anyone praying the chaplet who wants the place kept for them, with or without beads.

• The Divine Mercy Novena

  Nine days from Good Friday, worked out each year, with each day’s group of souls named on the board.

• The chaplet at three o’clock

  A few minutes at the Hour of Mercy, at a desk or on a break, with no beads to hand.

• Praying for the dying

  At a bedside, quietly, with the place kept if you are interrupted.

• Praying without beads

  Travelling, in hospital or at work: the phone keeps the count the beads would.

• Leading a group

  The prayer and its number on one screen, for whoever leads the responses.

• Learning the chaplet

  Each prayer named in turn with its first words, so a newcomer never loses the thread.

• A personal novena

  Nine days for an intention at any time of year, with a missed day plain to see.

• Praying with eyes closed

  Space or Enter moves on from anywhere on the page, and vibration marks each decade.

The chaplet in Diary 476, and the prayers printed with it

This counter keeps your place, counts the prayers and keeps a novena. It does not teach the prayers in full, interpret private revelation, or judge whether a promise or an indulgence applies to anyone; that is set out below. What it does do is follow the chaplet as the Diary of St Faustina gives it, and say plainly which prayers came from somewhere else.

The how-to pages in the search results print the chaplet as a list of steps: an opening prayer, “O Blood and Water” three times, the Our Father, Hail Mary and Creed, the five decades, the Holy God three times, and a closing prayer. Some mark the first and last as optional; none says where they come from. The answer is in the Diary itself. On 13 September 1935, in Vilnius, Faustina recorded the words “Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity…” (Diary 474 and 475). The next morning she was told how to say them (476): “First of all, you will say one OUR FATHER and HAIL MARY and the I BELIEVE IN GOD. Then on the OUR FATHER beads you will say the following words… On the HAIL MARY beads you will say the following words… In conclusion, three times you will recite these words: ‘Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.’” That is the whole instruction.

So the counter starts at the Our Father, as 476 does, and offers the others as settings rather than leaving them out: they are Faustina’s own words, printed with the chaplet in most booklets, and many people pray them. Two details in 476 are worth knowing. The Creed is the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe in God”, not the longer Nicene Creed said at Mass. And the “Holy God” is not new: it is the Trisagion, the ancient hymn of the Eastern liturgies, which the Latin Church sings on Good Friday during the Adoration of the Cross, here with “and on the whole world” added.

476 also says how long the chaplet was first meant to be said: “You will recite it for nine days, on the beads of the rosary.” The chaplet began as a novena, which is why the counter keeps one, explained next. Sources: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul (Marian Press, 2005), paragraphs 84, 187, 474 to 476, 950 and 1319, read 2026-10-11; Wikipedia, Trisagion.

Three o’clock: what the Hour of Mercy asks, and what it does not

Nearly every chaplet page says it is “traditionally prayed at 3 pm”. Three o’clock is the Hour of Mercy, the hour of Christ’s death, but the two passages that ask for it do not mention the chaplet. Diary 1320: “At three o’clock, implore My mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony.” Diary 1572 gives an order of preference, and it starts somewhere else:

So the chaplet at three o’clock is a fitting custom, widely kept in parishes, rather than what the Hour of Mercy requires; the passages ask for prayer at that hour, and say a brief one is enough. The chaplet itself is asked for at any hour, “Say unceasingly the chaplet that I have taught you” (687), and the Diary has Faustina saying it beside the dying and during a storm (1731). The counter keeps no clock for this. It keeps your place whatever time you start, and a chaplet begun at 2:59 pm is the same chaplet.

Promises and indulgences: what the counter cannot tell you

The counter records which button was pressed. Nothing on this page can tell you whether a promise or an indulgence applies to anyone; that is a question for a priest. Two things are often confused, and the difference matters.

The promises are in the Diary. Diary 687: “Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death.” 754: the souls that say it “will be embraced by My mercy during their lifetime and especially at the hour of their death.” 1731: “Through the chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will.” 811 even uses the word: when others say it for a dying person, “the indulgence is the same.” These are Faustina’s record of what she heard in prayer, which the Church calls private revelation. They are not a grant of an indulgence in the Church’s sense, which is made by decree.

The indulgence is in a decree. The Apostolic Penitentiary’s decree of 2002, approved by Pope John Paul II on 13 June that year, grants a plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday, and it does not mention the chaplet by name:

The decree also grants a partial indulgence to anyone who, “at least with a contrite heart”, prays a legitimately approved invocation to the merciful Lord Jesus. Sources: Apostolic Penitentiary, decree on indulgences attached to devotions in honour of Divine Mercy (2002); the Diary, paragraphs 687, 754, 811, 1320, 1541, 1572 and 1731; Wikipedia, Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. All read 2026-10-11.

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