Seal The Doorposts!

In these challenging times, when the need for peace and mercy is greater than ever, the Marian Fathers invite you to participate in a simple but incredibly powerful act of faith!  To protect you and your family, we urge you to post an Image of the Divine Mercy on your front doors.

Father Chris Alar, MIC, explains why in a video prepared for our last Seal the Doorposts campaign in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a worldwide lockdown::

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If you don’t have this Image, please visit TheDivineMercy.org/DivineMercyImage and download it for free and print it out. If you are unable to have it blessed by a priest, the Church allows you to invoke a blessing yourself. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1669) teaches that lay people, on account of their baptismal priesthood, may administer certain blessings.

How can you invoke such a blessing upon the Image of Divine Mercy? While making the Sign of the Cross over the Image, say:

Oh, Lord, I seek your blessing upon this image, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Why is this Image so important?

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The Image represents the Lord, the Lamb sacrificed for us, from whose Heart flows Blood and Water, the streams of God’s mercy upon the whole world. The Lord promises us through St. Faustina “that the soul that will venerate [honor] this image will not perish” (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 48).

He also promises: “victory over [our] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death” and to “defend [us] as [His] own glory” (Diary, 48)  

The Lord said, “By means of this Image I shall be granting many graces to souls; so, let every soul have access to it” (Diary, 570).

Saint Faustina’s confessor, Blessed Michael Sopocko, recalled additional promises our Lord made through St. Faustina regarding the Image:

When chastisements for sins come upon the world and your own country will experience utter degradation, the only refuge will be trust in My mercy. I will protect the cities and homes in which The Divine Mercy Image is found; I will protect the persons who will venerate [honor] this Image. The only refuge will be trust in My Mercy.

Father Sopocko recalled that Jesus also said: 

Let everyone procure for their homes this Image because there will yet come trials. And those homes, and entire families, and everyone individually who will hold this image of mercy in deep reverence, I will preserve from every sort of misfortune. The time will come when all those who do so will give witness to the miraculous efficacy and to the special protection of mercy flowing from this Image.

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What does this mean for us today?

Four years ago, when the repercussions of the coronavirus became crystal clear, we prayed at Mass, “Let us seal the doorposts of our inner thoughts with the protective Word of God …” This is a reference to Exodus 12, where God commanded the Israelites to “seal the doorposts” with the blood of the lamb so that the angel of death may pass over those houses that have been marked.

Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb of God. By offering Himself as atonement for our sins and those of the whole world, by the outpouring of His Blood and Water, He freed us from eternal death and sealed us for eternal life.

So please, we urge you to put the Image of the Divine Mercy with the inscription “Jesus, I trust in You” upon your doors, as many have done. Remember, it is Jesus whom we worship in this Image.

By this act of faith, and your trust in Jesus, you will obtain His promises of love and mercy, which will surround you and remain in you forever. 

May God bless you.
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