From an email:
Father,
Hope you’re keeping warm and healthy and that you’ve had a good and holy Christmas.
I’d like to comment on the Emergency Chaplet to the Immaculate Conception, that you posted some time back.
I have used it several times and have come to the conclusion that – IT WORKS – just as you said !!
I have had three instances where I have prayed and each time have received the petitions that I asked (in fact, these petitions where more like minor miracles).
I owe it to you for sharing this prayer with us and glory to the Almighty God, who loves us so much that he does such wonderful things for us.
A word of warning though. The three times I refer to above, I prayed with true contrition, faith and a heavy heart (also, the petitions where for someone else).
I will admit to praying on other occasions with not quite the same vigour and partially out of superstition (as this prayer can’t fail) – and received nothing. Our Lady knows the difference.
Isn’t God good ! [Yes, Mary's Son is just so good and just so kind!]
Here’s the original post, and here’s another reminder.
UPDATE: Someone saw this post a short time after it was put up. That person prayed the chaplet for a resolution to an absolutely horrific situation that has been ongoing for some days and was absolutely impossible to resolve, causing unimaginable heartbreak and anguish and end-of-the-rope anxiety, affecting all sorts of people. Result of the emergency chaplet: Within 30 minutes all was resolved, simply, easily. Thanks, Blessed Mother!
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
This is going to come across as weird, as there is no wrong time to pray, but would it be inappropriate to pray this chaplet if you aren’t in a crisis/life-death emergency?
I have a brother who has been living with his girlfriend. I have been praying for them both but they told us on Christmas that they got engaged. She is a sweetheart, so I am thrilled for them, but my prayers have become more critical that they (both baptized in the Church but lapsed) return to the Church. I don’t know that they would even be married this year, so it isn’t an “emergency” in that sense.
Hello Katherine!
Yikes! Such a name for your blog! And what a beautiful blog. I laughed out loud in joy in seeing it. What a day brightener. That you.
As to the “emergency chaplet”, well… Being in good standing (as far as we can tell) in friendship with our Lord — keeping up with the sacraments as sincerely as we can in His grace — is an absolute emergency at all times.
Seeing your blog, I know you already know that “living together” in preparation for marriage is fraudulent, and, without repentence, so hurts the couple (who have trained themselves to be able to leave each other at any time), that divorce is more likely for them than not within a year or two. Too bad, that. Living in sin is no way to prepare for a sacrament. It is a lie to God and to all society. God will not be mocked. We see what’s happened to families who suffer so much from serial polygamy (one after the other), kids (if there are any) who are aborted, or thrown into the foster home care fiasco (a different one every week or month), or grow up without the benefit of two parents.
An emergency? Yes, absolutely.
But to answer your question more generally: I pray this chaplet all the time. There’s always an emergency somewhere!
I’m going to add your blog to the blogroll on the sidebar, as a beautiful marriage is an analogy with the marriage of Christ and the Church, with the priest and the Church, through the Sacrifice of the Altar and those most awesome of all wedding vows: “This is my body… given for you in sacrifice… This is the chalice of my blood… shed for you in sacrifice…”
BTW: You’ll have to edit your “welcome” on your sidebar to include Teresa-Marie! Hard to keep up, I know!
Awesome! Thanks! I do try to pray the rosary but, well, with four little ones, it can take me days to get through a single rosary. Hence I’m quite partial to the powerful and beautiful but shorter Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I will definitely have to give the Emergency Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception a try.
Thanks for the mention about the “Welcome” too. She is accounted for now. Since she was born she has had two volumes: loud and louder. I guess I just forgot everyone else couldn’t hear her too. She is named after St. Teresa of Avila and seems to take after her patron quite nicely.