Day 9 Intention: Souls who have become lukewarm.

Today bring to Me the souls who have become lukewarm* and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy.  These souls wound My Heart most painfully.  My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls.  They were the reason I cried out: ‘Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.’  For them the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy.

“Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself.  I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart.  In this fire of Your pure love let these tepid souls, who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame.  O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercie the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Hear of Jesus.  Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His theree-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy.  Amen.”

This is a chaplet, which means there’s a series of prayers to be said and you can use a rosary to help keep track:

Recite the following:

The Our Father

The Hail Mary

The Apostles’ Creed

On the large beads (Our Father beads):

Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

On the small beads (Hail Mary beads):

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Continue those prayers around the entire rosary, always meditating on the intention for today. Then say the following three times:

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Done!  I hope this has been helpful to you.

*By the way, here’s the definition of “lukewarm souls” directly from Jesus to St. Faustina: “There are souls who thwart My efforts…souls without love or devotion, souls full of egoism and selfishness, proud and arrogant souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have hardly enough warmth to keep themselves alive.  My Heart cannot bear it.  All my graces that I pour down on them daily flow off them as off rock.  I cannot bear them because they are neither good nor bad.”