This Internet page contains the text that is based on excerpts from the DIARY of Saint sister Faustina Kowalska
(the numbers in parenthesis indicate the specific paragraphs found in the DIARY). It also contains excerpts
from the book, GOD’S MERCY IN HIS WORKS, written by Dr. Frather Michael Sopocko. In such a way we would like
to spread, through Saint Faustina, the message of the Divine Mercy to the whole world, which is the source
of hope for all mankind.


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“MANKIND WILL NOT HAVE PEACE UNTIL IT TURNS
WITH TRUST TO MY MERCY” (Diary, 300)

(The words of Lord Jesus from Saint Faustina).


VATICAN, St. Peter's Square. The ceremony of canonization of saint Faustina Kowalska.

April 30, 2000. Pope JOHN PAUL II proclaims sister Faustina Kowalska a Saint and institutes the Feast of Divine Mercy for the whole Church. On 17th August 2002 in Cracow Lagiewniki (Poland), Pope solemnly entrusts the world to
the Divine Mercy and on the same day consecrates the Shrine of Divine Mercy.

Excerpts from the Holy Father's homily given during Mass in Cracow Lagiewniki:

"O incomprehensible and Limitless Mercy Divine,
Who can extol and adore You worthily?
Supreme attribute of Almighty God,
You are the sweet hope for sinful man" (Diary, 951).

"Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Today I repeat these simple and straightforward words of Saint Faustina, in order to join her and all
of you in adoring the inconceivable and unfathomable mystery of God’s mercy. Like Saint Faustina,
we wish to proclaim that apart from the mercy of God there is no other source of hope for mankind.
We desire to repeat with faith: Jesus, I trust in You.
This proclamation of trust in the all-powerful love of God, is especially neccessary in our own times, when mankind is experiencing bewilderment in the face of many manifestations of evil.
The invocation of God’s mercy needs to rise up from the depth of hearts filled with suffering, apprehension and uncertainty, and at the same time yearning for an infallible source of hope (...). Today, therefore, in this Shrine, I wish to solemnly entrust the world to the Divine Mercy. I do so with the burning desire that the message of God’s merciful love, proclaimed through sister Faustina, may
be made known to all the peoples of the earth and fill their hearts with hope. May this message radiate from this place through our beloved homeland and throughout the world. (...)"

ACT OF ENTRUSTMENT OF THE WORLD TO THE DIVINE MERCY
O God, merciful Father,
Who have revealed your love
in your Son, Jesus Christ,
and have poured it out upon us in the Holy Spirit,
the Comforter.
We entrust to You today the destiny of the world
and of every man and woman.
Bend down to us sinners,
heal our weaknesses,
conquer all evil,
and grant that all the inhabitants of the earth
may experience Your mercy.
May they always find the source of hope
In You, the Triune God.
Eternal Father,
for the sake of the sorrowful Passion,
and the Resurrection of Your Son,
have mercy on us
and on the whole world. Amen.


"I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to My will, I will exalt her
in might and holiness. From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world
for My final coming" (Diary, 1732).

THE MESSAGE OF DIVINE MERCY

The Lord Jesus entrusted a great mission to this Polish nun from the Congregation of Our Lady
of Mercy, Saint sister Faustina, who had complete trust in God - to proclaim His message of mercy
to the whole world. Her mission was to introduce new prayers and forms of devotion to the Divine Mercy, which are to remind us of the forgotten truth of our faith - of God’s merciful love for every person. In the message, Merciful God reveals Jesus Christ the Savior, as the Father of love and Divine mercy, espescially to the most unfortunate, faulted and sinfull.

Saint sister Maria Faustina Kowalska
(1905-1938)

"You are the secretary of My mercy..." (Diary, 1605).

"Your task is to write down everything that
I make known to you about My mercy,
for the benefit of those who by reading these things will be comforted
in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me" (Diary, 1693).

"Today I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart (...) before the Day of Justice I am sending the Day of Mercy" (Diary, 1588).

The Savior desires, that the new forms of devotion to the Divine Mercy and His promises will
be known by whole world. His promises will be fulfilled under the condition of our trust in God’s goodness and our mercy towards our neighbors.

"I have opened My Heart as a living fountain of mercy. Let all souls draw life from it.
Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust. Sinners will attain justification,
and the just will be strengthened in goodness" (Diary, 1520).

"...Both the sinner and the righteous person have need of My mercy. Conversion,
as well as perseverance, is a grace of My mercy" (Diary, 1577).

"The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is - trust.
The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive" (Diary, 1578).

 

 

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