It is undoubtedly a sign of our times a sign of our 20th century. Sister Faustina was not good at drawing, so she asked Sister Boenna Pniewska for help. Sister Faustinas prophetic mission was kept strictly secret during her lifetime. They liked her and gathered around her during recreation, as her thoughts and words were focused on God and she was always cheerful. Sister Faustinas mission continues and is bringing wondrous fruit. At night the whole family would kneel for evening prayers, in May they would sing the Loreto Litany in front of the outdoor chapel outside the house, and in October recite the rosary. That was St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Divine Mercy revelations, who was canonized in 2000 and whose revelations were celebrated Sunday. No-one knew about it except for Father Micha Sopoko, Father Jzef Andrasz, and some of her superiors. Apostle of Divine Mercy, Prophet of Our Times, Great Mystic, Mistress of Spiritual Life - these are the epithets usually appended to the name of Sister Faustina Kowalska, St Faustyna (Faustina), of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. She fetched her rosary, knelt by the dying persons bedside and started saying the Chaplet with all the powers of her spirit, asking Jesus to fulfil the promise He had made regarding the Chaplet. (Diary16). Towards the end of May 1933 she was directed to Vilnius. I do not fear death, my soul abound in great peace. So she did not turn down an invitation to a dance in the Wenecja Park. When a friend asked her why she was walking alone, not with the other girls, she said, Im not alone, Im walking with Jesus. One day she saw there an extraordinary light. 29 in the Abramowskiego and needed a child-minder for her three children. Delivery: Estimated between Thu, Jan 26 and Mon, Jan 30 to 98837. . Where, if not in Divine Mercy, will the world find rescue and the light of hope? She wrote: "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. From a very tender age she stood out because of her love of prayer, work, obedience and her sensitivity to the poor. I couldnt hear what St. Peter said, but I realised that the Holy Father understood him (Diary 1044). There was also Jadzia, a blind charge, who told of her unusual experiences. And Jesus said: I shall treat every soul that says this Chaplet as My glory, and I shall grant it My defence at the hour of death; also those at whose deathbed others say the Chaplet shall be granted the same indulgence. She woke up during the night and realised that a soul was asking her for prayer. I immersed completely in the joy that comes from God. After a while Jesus said to her, Make Me a picture of this image in the form that you see, with the inscription Jesus, I trust in You. It turned out to be a false alarm. Seeing this sign of Gods wrath, she started begging the Angel to hold off a while for the world to do penance, but when she stood before the majesty of the Holy Trinity she did not dare repeat her plea. From her youngest years she would tell us about the saints, pilgrims, and hermits who fed only on roots, berries and forest honey, her brother Stanisaw recalled. She waited for the priest He had promised and the chance to have the painting of the Merciful Jesus made according to Gods will. At first Mother General had not consented to her leaving the Congre- gation and had warned Sister Faustina to beware of delusions and imprudent moves, but now that she was travelling to Krakw for a visitation, on 4 May 1937, she said: Up to now, I have always held you back, but now I leave it entirely up to you; if you want to leave, you can do so; if you want to stay in the Congregation, you can stay(Diary 1115). It happened one day during the octave of Corpus Christi she recorded the most important event of her time at Ostrwek in her diary God filled my soul with an inner light enabling me to come to know Him as the Supreme Good and Beauty. Some warned her of hallucinations, others declared she was hysterical and fantasising, and yet others acknowledged that she must be close to Jesus since she was bearing all this suffering with such calm. The Diary of St. Faustina is the second most important book in the world, after the Bible. Sister Faustina is one of the Churchs most popular and widely known saints and the greatest mystics in the history of the Church. He called her Diary a Gospel of Mercy written from a 20th-century perspective, which has helped people to survive the extremely painful experiences of these times. One of them was Janek, who was said to be lapsed. Sister Maria Faustina (born Helena Kowalska in Glogowiec, Poland on August 25, 1905) was canonized on April 30, 2000 by Pope John Paul II thus becoming the first Catholic saint of the 21st century. She realised that she was responsible not only for her own salvation, but also other peoples, and so she resolved to do all in her power to fulfil His will or to make Him transfer these graces to someone else, since she was only wasting them. The Holy Father John Paul II wrote that in the age of totalitarianisms Sister Faustina became the ambassador of the message that the only power strong enough to counteract their evil is the truth of Gods Mercy. I was extremely happy, as I desperately wanted to make my Confession. Asked by her if she was pleased to be dying in our Congregation she replied, Yes. After all, she lived in a convent and was only a simple nun performing prosaic duties; she had neither extensive relations with other people nor any opportunities to disseminate this message in the world at large. On the next day during Mass she saw Jesus, who yet again said that He wanted such a work founded as soon as possible. They found her full of joy and happiness. My soul started to die from the suffering. Jesus not only revealed the depth of His Mercy to St. Faustina, but also gave her new forms of worship: the picture inscribed Jesus, I trust in You, the Feast of Divine Mercy, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and the Prayer in the Hour of His Death on the Cross, the Hour of Mercy. Today there is probably no country left without an image of the Merciful Jesus. Ive absolutely nothing to hold against her, she was just so good. Then I saw her all different, changed, and levitating over the bed, gazing into the distance as if she were looking at something there. Through the many visions that she had, she was able to grow and nourish her love for Christ in the Eucharist. The Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart, who worked as nurses in the hospital, prepared a room for her, but in the evening one of them informed her that she would not have Holy Communion the next day because she was exhausted. This truth that God is in His very nature Love and Mercy Itself, is given to us by our Judeo-Christian faith and God's self-revelation. She commuted into Warsaw from Ostrwek looking for a convent which would take her but she was turned down wherever she knocked to the gate. Whereas, it turned out, God let her know how much she would suffer. However, impelled by the vision of the Suffering Christ, in July 1924 she left for Warsaw to find a place. I thought God was not pleased with my prayers. For the entire day without intermission, I lived immersed in God (Diary 707-708). The suffering lasted a minute and then God again filled her soul with great comfort. Already in the first days, when she suffered much because for nearly three weeks she had no access to confession, This afternoon, Father Andrasz came into my isolation room and sat down to hear my Confession. I could also clearly see the great holiness of God, I did not dare raise up my eyes to Him but cast myself into the dust at His feet, begging for mercy. In the convent chapel Father Andrasz blessed another picture of the Merciful Jesus painted in accordance with Sister Faustinas instructions and started special services in honour of the Divine Mercy. Like the biblical prophets, she started enumerating her inadequacies and excusing herself that she was not capable of accomplishing this work. But there was something that set her apart from the rest of the children in the village. It was in the convent at Pock, where Sister Faustina arrived in the May or June of 1930, that her great prophetic mission was to begin. In the Lipszyc household Helenka was treated like a member of the family, they all loved and respected her for her hard work and cheerfulness, she had a way with children, in short she had all it takes to be a good wife and mother. She is known for her diary and for promoting devotion to Jesus as the King of Mercy which is particularly done by praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet. I am suffering as much as I can bear. During these visits she spoke with Dr. Adam Zylber on Sister Faustinas condition. St. Faustina offered her day in 1936 for Russia, as Jesus was in anguish over what was happening in the atheistic country. Her relics are in the Shrine of the Divine Mercy at agiewniki, Krakw. Sister Faustina had achieved the fullness of union with God and sang a hymn in honour of His unfathomable Mercy. You will prepare the world for My final coming. He preached conferences on spiritual struggle, sacrifice, prayer, and mercy. I feel very, very weak and am writing with a trembling hand. Her feast day is Oct. 5. In November 1932 Sister Faustina left Pock and returned to Warsaw for the third probation and to prepare for her perpetual vows. In each of them she tried to discern Jesus Himself and out of love for Him did good works for all of them. I observed a profound gravity in her, and had a strange feeling that Sister Faustina took this assurance as a gift from the Divine Mercy, without a trace of pride, Mother Irena recalled. Thanks to a satellite television link religious and lay pilgrims gathered in the agiewniki Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakw could participate in the ceremony. I suddenly saw Jesus, Who said these words to me, Now I know that it is neither for the graces nor the gifts that you love Me, but because My will is dearer to you than life; that is why I am uniting with you more closely than with any other creature. At that moment, Jesus vanished. When we got there Sister Faustina as if opened her eyes and gave a faint smile, and then bowed her head and Sister Amelia said that probably she had just died. Was when I was seven, [it happened] during Vespers and Jesus was exposed in the monstrance. In a response she heard: It is not the beauty of the paint nor of the brush, but My grace that makes this painting great(Diary 313). I want a Feast of Mercy. In July her superiors sent her to the Congregations house in the spa resort of Rabka, but the sharp mountain climate was not good for Sister Faustina, she felt worse and had to leave after thirteen days. That day at supper time a bell was heard. She was better at keeping the house than I was. Sister Faustina wished a priest would come and resolve the question definitively and just say, rest assured, you are on the right road, or reject it all, for it does not come from God (Diary 127). 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