33 Days to Merciful Love: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat in Preparation for Consecration to Divine Mercy Paperback – February 1, 2016

This book is thought provoking, powerful, inspiring and has opened my mind and heart to divine mercy in a new way. Highly recommend for anyone wanting to become closer to Jesus.

33 days to merciful love is so inspiring and beautiful! It’s very easy to understand and each day is not long at all, it’s very do able! You learn so many great things from the Author, St. Therese, and St. Faustina! Please read it! It changes you!

Having read Fr. Gaitley's "Consoling The Heart Of Jesus" and his "33 Days To Morning Glory", a Marian Consecration book based on the thought of St. Louis de Montfort, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. John Paul II, and Blessed (soon to be St.) Teresa of Calcutta, I was excited to see that he had taken up the subject of a Consecration to Divine Mercy based largely on St. Therese's "Offering To Merciful Love" with a little bit of St. Faustina added.Today is Divine Mercy Sunday. I made Fr. Gaitley's "Prayer of Consecration to Merciful Love" on pages 134 and 135 and renewed my "Offering to Merciful Love" in the words of the Little Flower, on pages 135 and 136, which I first made on June 9, 1995, the 100th anniversary of Therese first making the Consecration. This book can best be summarized by some words on pages 55-57:"[T]he Little Way is all about the heart of the Gospel: Divine Mercy. It's all about remaining little and then arriving at the heights of holiness through the descending mercy of Jesus. ... It's about accepting that we are to put up with ourselves - with all the darkness of our weakness, brokenness, and sin, - without getting discouraged. It's recognizing, without giving up, that some struggles are chronic. It's realizing, without despairing, that they may be with us till our dying day. But it's also about realizing that this does not prevent us from becoming saints."I particularly liked and lingered on days 2 thru 7, which are about the importance of faith (trust) and the great faith and trust of our Mother in Faith, Mary, and our Father in Faith, Abraham. They believed God's promises would be fulfilled despite how humanly impossible those promises seemed. However little Faith one has had, however greatly one has sinned, one should never despair of God's Merciful Love as St. Therese tells us:"[E]ven though I had on my conscience all the sins that can be committed, I would go, my heart broken with sorrow, and throw myself into Jesus' arms, for I know how much He loves the prodigal child who returns to Him." (PP. 54,55)And St. Faustina:"Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary. ... Oh, how beyond comprehension is God's mercy! ... God's mercy sometimes touches the sinner at the last moment in a wondrous and mysterious way." (PP. 192, 193)

Good book!

Since I was a young teen I was told that my spiritual gift was mercy (I have my mentor and friend Omer Young among others to thank for this understanding). Four decades later I'm finally coming home to an understanding of that gift. Much gratitude and thanks to Fr. Michael Gaitley and my Parish Priest Fr. Jim Chelich for shining light on this path, this way of being and understanding the Gospel that fits my soul. Today, April 23, 2017, Divine Mercy Sunday, was my first consecration to looking at life through this lens and I am joyfully dedicated to learning to grow in this little way.For anyone who wants to learn how to trust God more and follow His way of Divine Mercy I highly recommend this book as a starting point. Even non-Catholics can benefit from being taken through this little 'school of trust', as this spirituality is accessible to any Christian with an open heart and mind and explains much about the human condition and our basic problem of distrust in God's goodness.I want to be a missionary for Divine Mercy! May it start in a tiny way right here.May God bless you with His Mercy and Peace!

Daily meditations were brief and easily understood. This is a very powerful, thought provoking, well written book! Worth every penny.

Deep reflection on what is divine mercy, while being an easy read.