About the Divine Mercy Image
Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature:
Jesus, I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world.
The Divine Mercy Image: An Icon of Mercy (6:26 mins)
The Divine Mercy Image is not another ordinary picture!
The Divine Mercy Image of JESUS is not another ordinary holy picture of JESUS. It is an Image JESUS Himself revealed to St Faustina and commanded her to have it painted.
Fountain of Mercy
JESUS also told her: “I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy… That vessel is this image with the signature: ‘Jesus, I trust in You,’ ” (Diary Note 327).
JESUS revealed Himself to St. Faustina
On February 22, 1931, St Faustina wrote (Diary Notes 47-48)
”In the evening, when I was in my cell, I saw the Lord Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand [was] raised in the gesture of blessing; the other was touching the garment at the breast. From beneath the garment, slightly drawn aside at the breast, there were emanating two large rays, one red, the other pale. In silence I kept my gaze fixed on the Lord; my soul was struck with awe, but also with great joy.
The Gaze of JESUS on this Image
On another occasion, JESUS told St Faustina: “My gaze from this image is like My gaze from the cross. … Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My Mercy." (Diary Note 299)
St. Faustina and the Image of Divine Mercy (58 mins)
Speaker: Sr. Gaudia Skass. Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Poland
JESUS instructed Saint Faustina to paint the image
After a while, Jesus said to me, “Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory”
On another occasion, JESUS told her : “Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace.”
JESUS promised many graces!
JESUS promised many graces to those who venerate this Image and wanted it made known throughout the whole world.
- Assurance of Salvation: Jesus told St. Faustina, “I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.” This is a powerful assurance of Divine Protection direct from Jesus.
- Blessing and Presence: Jesus said, “My gaze from this image is like My gaze from the cross.” When we pray before the image, we are spiritually in His presence, Jesus looks at us with compassion and mercy.
- Call to Mercy: Venerating the image also calls us to live mercifully. Jesus emphasized that even strong faith is ineffective without works of mercy.
- Divine Rays: The red and pale rays symbolize Blood and Water—graces flowing from Jesus’ Heart. Those who dwell in their shelter are promised protection from Divine Justice.
- Enemies retreat: Jesus promised victory over spiritual enemies, especially at the hour of death. He said, “I Myself will defend it as My own glory.”
- Flow of Mercy: The inscription “Jesus, I trust in You” is not just any ordinary phrase—it’s a spiritual posture of trusting in God. Trust unlocks the flow of mercy and helps us to remember to trust in God.
- Graces: Jesus described the image as a “vessel of graces” through which souls can continually draw mercy, healing, and strength.
Two Rays denote Blood and Water...
Sometime later, St Faustina’s Confessor told her to ask the Lord Jesus the meaning of the two rays in the image, (Diary Note 77)
St Faustina wrote in her note book, “During prayer I heard these words within me: The two rays denote Blood and Water….
The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous…
The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls...
These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross."
Veneration of the Divine Mercy Image
Sometime before the first Sunday after Easter – April 1935. JESUS had told her
“I desire that this image be displayed in public on the first Sunday after Easter….. That Sunday is the Feast of Mercy….. Through the Word Incarnate I make known the bottomless depth of My mercy."
St Faustina later wrote in her Diary, ‘Strangely, all things came about just as the Lord had requested. In fact, it was on the first Sunday after Easter [April, 1935] that the image was publicly honored by crowds of people for the first time.
For three days it was exposed and received public veneration…. during these three days, the Redemption of the World was being celebrated, marking the nineteen hundred years that have passed since the Passion of our Savior. I see now that the work of Redemption is bound up with the work of mercy requested by the Lord.’
Let us believe!
We live in one of the darkest ages of great sin, wickedness, cruelty, selfishness and great rejection of the love and the law of God and JESUS has revealed the image of Divine Mercy that bore the wounds He revealed to His Apostles in the Cenacle – Apostles who were fearful of persecution and rejection and who were weak in their faith. “If you do not believe my words, at least believe my wounds” (Diary Note 379). He revealed Himself with the signs of His passion – an act of the immense mercy of God, but also one that manifests resurrection and triumph over evil.
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