
NOTE: This post was originally written during Easter time and while I was doing a temporary daily Twitter thread for the Divine Mercy devotion. I’m not currently doing those, so I’m moving the Divine Mercy Threads section to the end of the Live Twitter Rosary page, Rosary Project Live Archives.
The Live Twitter Rosary In Time of Pandemic and Turmoil
+JMJ+ You’re probably already praying about the Coronavirus. I’m offering two ways for us to pray together via Twitter threads. You can join live or use them later. More details in this post. God bless and Happy Easter, y’all!
I’m continuing to post the Live Twitter Rosary prayer threads on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm EDT, 7pm CDT. I plan to do that until this thing is crushed and over with. (I may change the days at some point but for right now I’m keeping it to Tuesdays and Fridays to keep Mondays and Thursdays open for posting here on the blog.) (See below for how to join in.)
How to Join In and Please Do!
Follow me or watch for the threads (I usually post the welcome tweet a few minutes early and pin it to my profile) on Twitter and please do join in! You can use the intentions I post or use your own and post them, too, if you like. I’m posting links to the completed threads Rosary Project Live Archives page so you can use them anytime. (And the myriad mistakes I make while posting them live will be immortalized for all to see. Awright. Good stuff. Keeps me humble.)
Thank you for visiting and reading. I hope you’ll join me in prayer—on the threads or otherwise. Until next time, whoever and wherever you are, please stay safe and well. May the Lord bless and keep you and yours, and may His peace be always with you. Amen. +JMJ+

Divine Mercy Novena In Time of Pandemic
Please consider joining me in praying for those affected by, and for an end to, the Coronavirus pandemic. I’m posting Live Twitter Divine Mercy prayer threads daily at 3pm EDT, 2pm CDT, until Divine Mercy Sunday. May post them beyond that, we’ll see. (See below for how to join in.)
EWTN has a PDF booklet you can use for the Divine Mercy novena. I didn’t realize remember soon enough to use it from the start, but now I’m including the novena intentions and a screenshot of the days’ intentions and prayers in the threads. Hey, by the time it’s over I should have the threads all nice and organized. Oy! Sigh. ;)
The other intentions, the ones I included at first (and still do) are modified versions of the ones that Pope St. John Paul II gave us to use to end the culture of death, the ones that you’ll see on the Divine Mercy chaplet pages here on site.
How does this work?
Does God show more mercy to sufferers if others are praying for them?
Is he otherwise holding back?
He’s all-knowing and if he wanted to stop the suffering, he could.
He doesn’t. Prayers don’t tell him anything he doesn’t know, so prayers don’t change his mind.
Pray if it makes you feel better. It’s meditation practice since the dawn on man.
But outcomes are the same.
Enjoy.
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One of the best things I’ve read, and that addresses these points you bring up, is this post by Fr. Mike Schmitz. No theological jargon, just plain English, only took me a few minutes to read it.
https://lifeteen.com/blog/why-pray-truth-prayer/
I will say this: prayer does emphatically NOT make me feel better. If anything, it usually helps me see how weak I am. If prayer were about making us feel better, we could do that in a much easier way, like being snarky to strangers. ;)
Thanks for reading and commenting, Jane. God bless.
Lee :)
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