NEW DESIGN - This crucifix is new to the market, produced this year (2021) My prayer is that devotion to Divine Mercy will grow through this Crucifix.
The Divine Mercy Crucifix is produced with meaning in different aspects of the crucifix.
The rays represent the blood and water of Christ in the Divine Mercy Image.
The Bottom of the Divine Mercy Crucifix has the "Jesus I Trust in You"
The three letters behind Jesus is the very common christogram "JHS" also seen as "IHS" the denoting the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus.
In 1931 Our Lord Jesus appeared to St. Faustina in a vision and said to her.
Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You. 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 (Diary, 47, 48). 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 (327). I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world (47).
At the request of her spiritual director, St. Faustina asked the Lord about the meaning of the rays in the image. She heard these words in reply:
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 depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him (299). By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works (742).
Many different versions of this image have been painted, but our Lord made it clear that the painting itself is not what is important. When St. Faustina first saw the original image that was being painted under her direction, she wept in disappointment and complained to Jesus: "Who will paint You as beautiful as You are?" (313).
In answer, she heard these words: "Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace" (313).
The 3 O'Clock Prayer - The Hour Of Great Mercy
Prayers from the Diary of Saint Faustina
October 1937, Poland. St Faustina was instructed by Our Lord Jesus to venerate the hour of His death and to connect with Him in prayer referring to the value and merits of His Passion.
You expired, O Jesus,
but the source of life gushed forth for souls
and an ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world.
O Fount of Life,
unfathomable Divine Mercy,
envelop the whole world
and empty Yourself out upon us.
O Blood and Water,
which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus
as a fount of mercy for us,
I Trust in You. (Diary 1319 & 84)
