Along with great physical and spiritual suffering there were also vast graces, which Sister Faustina did not divulge to anyone except her confessors. Not only the sisters but also their charges and even the farm hands came down to pray in the crypt where Sister Faustinas coffin stood. Soon afterwards I heard that this triduum was indeed to be celebrated Father Sopoko wrote and Canon Stanisaw Zawadzki, parish priest of Ostra Brama, invited me to deliver a sermon. Sister Faustina followed the novice mistress instructions attentively and fulfilled all the duties allotted her with exactitude. She looked unremarkable, slightly delayed age-wise, rather feeble figure, a maidservant and cook by profession, no dowry, not even the most meagre of trousseaus. The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy has fully adopted Sister Faustinas prophetic mission, and on 25 August 1995 recognised her as its Spiritual Foundress. 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. For another year she worked as a housekeeper to save some money for a modest monastic trousseau. One such moment was the ceremony for her first vows, which was celebrated on 30 April 1928 by Bishop Stanisaw Rospond. Her health slightly improved, Sister Faustina returned to agiewniki Convent. The flames of mercy are burning Me; I want to pour them out onto human souls. It happened again for 13 days, but I was never sure that he would bring me Holy Communion on the next day(Diary 1676). Only during a discussion with her spiritual director Father Sopoko did she disclose that God wants a congregation to preach Divine mercy to the world and to pray for Divine mercy for the world (Diary 436). In the evening when she returned to her cell, she had a physical vision of Jesus in a white robe. St. Faustina is celebrated each year as an Optional Memorial on October 5. She was anxious to fulfil the mission Jesus had given her. 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. Sister Faustina was not good at drawing, so she asked Sister Boenna Pniewska for help. She joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and experienced several visions of Jesus. Her father had already taught her to read, but at school she had the opportunity to learn more. In fact, being submerged in God will give me unlimited scope for action(Diary 1582). On the Feast of Pentecost, 9 June 1935, in the evening, when she was in the garden, Jesus gave her a new task: You and your companions shall beg for mercy for yourselves and for the world (Diary 435). That terrible thought pierced my soul right through. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of Secretary of Divine Mercy. It was around eleven at night. During the 1930s, a Polish nun named Faustina Kowalska reportedly had . After a few weeks stay at Walendw she went to the Congregations house at Derdy, which was just a kilometre away where she cooked for the small group of sisters and over thirty charges. This is why Vilnius has become known as the City of Divine Mercy. It was where all of our Lords demands of St. Faustina in His message of Divine Mercy were finally realised. 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. The second hue would be the active congregations, which would combine prayer with acts of mercy and make the merciful love of God present in an egoistic world. Every day He gave her a subject for contemplation and points for meditation. Her superiors sent her for treatment to a sanatorium in the municipal health institution in Krakw. It is also the means to establish peace in human hearts and between nations: Mankind shall not find peace and contentment until it turns with trust unto My mercy (Diary 300). For the entire day without intermission, I lived immersed in God (Diary 707-708). We continued to pray. In October 1928 the Congregation held its General Chapter, and the office of Mother General was entrusted to Mother Michaela Olga Moraczewska who was educated (a graduate of a music conservatory) and spoke several languages. "After it will come the Day of Justice. When she returned to the reception room she repeated these words to Mother Superior, who said, If the Lord has admitted you, then so do I (Diary 14). The Roman Catholic devotion and venerated image under this Christological title refers to what Faustina's diary describes as "God's loving mercy". The Sisters took turns in keeping a vigil by her bedside. During that ceremony, held in the Jubilee Year, the Holy Father founded the Feast of Divine Mercy for the entire Church and passed on to the world the prophetic mission of Mercy for the third millennium of faith. The doctor said it was very bad. So she did not turn down an invitation to a dance in the Wenecja Park. I want the picture which you will paint with a brush blessed in a special ceremony on the first Sunday after Easter, that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy. God came first, not only on Sundays and family occasions, but every day. She accepted Gods will in a spirit of faith, trusting that Jesus would help and bring her in touch with people who would tell her when and what to do to make beautiful flowers and wholesome fruit and vegetables grow in the garden. Where, if not in Divine Mercy, will the world find rescue and the light of hope? He asked me to say the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus for my penance. Our Lady faithfully accompanied Sister Faustina and spoke to her on the prophetic mission. The funeral took place on 7 October, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. 1. During confession, he assured her she was on the right road, and that her relationship with Jesus was neither hysteria, nor delusion, nor daydreaming. From a very tender age she stood out because of her love of prayer, work, obedience and her sensitivity to the poor. He promised her his special help and protection, but asked her every morning to say three Our Fathers and one prayer which the Congregation said in honour of St. Joseph. Why do we pray at 3 o clock? The first stage of her hospital treatment ended in March 1937. Today, I am sending you with My mercy to the whole of mankind (Diary 1588). In December of the same year she came back to the house in the ytnia, but not for long. As a little girl she was already distinguished from others by a sense of mercy. Sister Faustinas prophetic mission was kept strictly secret during her lifetime. image of different languages; countries with representative democracy; busy farming in the last days novel; fortinet. That joy faded somewhat towards the end of her first year in the novitiate when she started to go through a period of extremely painful spiritual experiences known as the passive nights. Although the first and only apparition in Poland to Saint Faustina of Jesus as the Image of Divine Mercy, occurred on February 22, 1931 in Plock, Saint Faustina had several apparitions of Jesus as Divine Mercy in Vilnius, where she lived in a convent house where she was sent by the superiors of her religious community. On arriving in Krakw she met with Father Andrasz, who advised her to keep praying and exercising acts of self-mortification until the Feast of the Sacred Heart, when he would give her an answer to this question. The tension regarding the accomplishing of the work of Mercy entrusted her by the Lord had gone. On the next day during Mass she saw Jesus, who yet again said that He wanted such a work founded as soon as possible. Her family had ten children and was very poor. I couldnt paint, either, and I did not understand that she meant a new kind of picture, Sister Boenna recalled, so I suggested I would offer her a choice out of the many fine holy pictures I had. She would often tell the sisters and charges about Gods love of mankind and about the tremendous value of doing good to ones neighbour. So when we go to confession our souls are spotless and we have nothing to worry about. At Skolimw she asked Jesus whom she should pray for. 2. Jesus said to Sister Faustina that the sign would come with the graces dispensed through the picture. He did his best to follow all her requirements.. He asked her to hold the moment of His death on the cross in veneration. Faustina was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church on 30 April 2000, [1] [2] having been considered a mystic and visionary. She told us children that when she grew up she would enter a convent, but we laughed. My soul trembled at the very thought that I was to take my vows. Father Sopoko requested Sister Faustina to ask Jesus about that, too. Divine Mercy Sunday is celebrated the Second Sunday of Easter (which is the first Sunday after Easter). On Jesus confirmation that He meant a material picture, she informed the local superior, Sister Ra Kobukowska, about the situation, who demanded a sign confirming the truth of the visions. Helenkas immediate entry was prevented by poverty, and Mother Superior advised her to continue for a time in service and save up for a small trousseau, testing the firmness of her vocation. The sisters in the refectory got up from table and went upstairs, where Sister Faustina was lying in her room. Kowalska has such a blessed child! she used to say in the village. At last on 1 August 1925, the vigil of the Feast of Our Lady Queen of Angels, the day came when Helenka Kowalska crossed the threshold into the convent enclosure. She told her that God was still her Father although he was testing her, and that these trials were to prepare her soul for a fuller union with Him. The following day, as she entered the Chapel, Jesus spoke to her and explained that the main purpose of Chaplet of Divine Mercy is to appease the Just Anger of the Holy Trinity. I Myself shall protect it as My glory (Diary 47-48). She died on Oct. 5, 1938, after being chosen by Jesus and Mary to become the unlikely apostle of the Divine Mercy. But there were still some doubts as to the inscription. 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. After less than two months of Sister Faustinas novitiate there was a change of novice mistress (20 June 1926). Suddenly, when my love and longing had reached a peak, I saw a Seraph standing next to my bed, who gave me Holy Communion, saying the words, Behold, the Lord of Angels. When I had received the Lord, my spirit sank in the love of God and in wonder. Others in her state would never rise, but he had seen her holding on to the wall as she walked to the chapel. Without asking her parents consent she packed and went to the capital. She attended elementary school for merely three years and then she went to work as a housekeeper in various welltodo families in Aleksandrw and d. The pale ray stands for the water which justifies souls; and the red ray stands for the blood which is the life of souls Happy is he who shall live in their shadow, for the just hand of God shall not reach him (Diary 299). Then she whispered, Jesus wants to elevate me and make me a saint. What most struck me about Sister Faustina, she wrote after her death, and still strikes me today as an extraordinary phenomenon, especially in the last months of her illness, was her absolute self-oblivion for the sake of the dissemination of the worship of Divine Mercy. This was her last attempt to leave the Congregation, but the spiritual struggle continued. Is a gift from God for our times, great mystic, mistress of spiritual life, prophet, who reminded the biblical truth about merciful love of God for every human being and calls to proclaim it to the world through the testimony of life, deed, word and prayer. Father supplemented his income from the farm with work as a carpenter. She was magnanimous and devoted her entire life to the saving of souls. She waited for the priest He had promised and the chance to have the painting of the Merciful Jesus made according to Gods will. In the next visions Jesus made great promises to Sister Faustina in connection with the trustful reciting of the Chaplet. For us on earth she left a promise: I shall not forget you, O poor Earth, though I feel I shall im[1]mediately sink completely in God, as in an ocean of bliss; but it will not prevent me from coming back to Earth and fortifying and encouraging souls to trust in Divine mercy. That is how Sister Faustinas hospital ministry for the dying started. What is Maria Faustina Kowalska known for? All the Kowalski children were baptised in the Parish Church of St. Casimir at winice Warckie; here they made their First Holy Communion and attended Mass on Sundays and holy days. It was during Vespers in simple words straight from my heart I made a vow of perpetual chastity to God. In each of them she tried to discern Jesus Himself and out of love for Him did good works for all of them. This is why Vilnius has become known as the "City of Divine Mercy." It was where all of our Lord's demands of St. Faustina in His message of Divine Mercy were finally realised. Can the Divine Mercy prayer be said at any time? I opened up all my soul, as usual. Two days later she was baptized with the name Helena in the parish church of . Souls that venerate the image of Divine Mercy will not perish In her diary, Saint Faustina recorded the words of Christ regarding the image. 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. Any soul that makes its Confession and receives Holy Communion will have its sins and its punishment completely remitted. On the afternoon of 5 October 1938 Father Andrasz arrived at the agiewniki Convent and for the last time granted Sister Faustina absolution and administered the Sacrament of the Sick. In these dark nights of the soul there were moments of light and joy, when God allowed her to feel His love or when Our Lady came to her aid. 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 Faustyna Kowalska, St. Faustyna (Faustina), of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. In 1965, as the Bishop of Krakw, he initiated a diocesan process for raising of Sister Faustina to the glory of the altars. The simple truths of the faith were becoming incomprehensible; my soul was undergoing torment, not finding contentment anywhere. In the early morning Father would sing the Hours or other hymns, and when Mother rebuked him that he would wake the children, he replied that they had to learn from their youngest years that God was the most important. Since our ceremony was so closely linked with Rome, I dont exactly know how to distinguish [between the two ceremonies], but thats what I saw and thats what Im writing. He asked people to kindle that spark of Gods grace and to transmit the fire of mercy to the world. Sister Faustina fulfilled this mission not only by the witness of her own life and the writing of her diary, in which she revealed Gods extraordinary merciful love for each human being, but also through her everyday relations with her neighbours. But soon she had to leave for Krakw, where there were better medical facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis. My soul started to die from the suffering. Her given name was Helena. On her return from hospital (17 September 1938) Sister Faustina waited in the convents infirmary for the moment of her passage from this world to the Fathers House. Through the many visions that she had, she was able to grow and nourish her love for Christ in the Eucharist. . He promised special graces to priests who preached the truth of Gods merciful love for mankind. Sister Faustina decided to leave and straightaway write to the Holy Father to dispense her from her vows. A Gift of God for Our Times No-one can deny that God is infinitely merciful; He wants everyone to know that. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on April 30, 2000. One day passing by the chapel she said to Sister Damiana Ziek, I heard that Jesus said that at the Last Judgement He would judge people only on their mercy, for God is Mercy, so by doing or failing to do merciful deeds you are casting a verdict on yourself. Sister Faustinas parents came to the agiewniki convent. But yet again she was overwhelmed by such darkness that she returned to Mother Generals room to tell her of her tribulation and struggle. Located in: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was with this in mind that on 21 March 1936 she left Vilnius. I felt wonderfully happy at having been able to confess everything. She was the tutor who prepared Helenka to take the veil and directed her in the first months of her novitiate. Throughout her life, she reported a number of visions of Jesus and conversations with him, which she wrote about in her diary, later published as the book Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul. that it is good for that person from the perspective of eternity. She was modest and quiet, ready to do any chore and help anyone, but at the same time cheerful and always with a smile on her face. St Mary Faustina Kowalska was born on 25 August 1905 in Glogowiec, Poland, to a poor, religious family of peasants, the third of 10 children. He was strict with himself and his children and did not tolerate even the slightest misdemeanour. Indeed she gave the impression of a supernatural being. From the age of seven, she had felt the calling for religious vocation, but her parents would not give her permission to enter the convent. Was when I was seven, [it happened] during Vespers and Jesus was exposed in the monstrance. This task was of special importance, since Jesus attached such great promises to it. Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905 in central Poland, the third of the ten children of Stanisaw Kowalski and Marianna Kowalska. In the morning, during Meditation Sister Faustina recorded I was overwhelmed by the presence of God in a special way, seeing Gods immense greatness and, at the same time, His coming down to His creatures. The week for Confession came she recorded in her diary and, to my joy, I saw the priest whom I knew before I came to Vilnius. An experienced confessor, Father Sopoko first tried to get to know his penitent, and not be misled by any delusions, hallucinations or fantasies deriving from human nature. Sister Faustinas health was deteriorating all the time and the end of her life on earth was approaching. And you could always observe a childlike joy on her face. The over eightmonth period of illness and two spells in Prdnik Hospital was a good time for writing, and a major part of her spiritual writings was done in Krakw. The superior of the house, Mother Irena Krzyanowska, like to visit her there, and observed Sister Faustinas great calm and a strange charm about her. Her awareness of the presence of God in her soul could be observed already in childhood, and grew throughout her life, just as did her responsiveness to the needs of others. I was amazed a junior postulant was capable of such self-restraint and goodness, she later wrote. Some, especially the more curious ones, were irked by my silence. I immersed completely in the joy that comes from God. I saw how enthusiastically Sister Faustina carried out all her duties. Sister Amelia arrived after me. The suffering lasted a minute and then God again filled her soul with great comfort. This argument and their childs happiness persuaded her parents and from then on they had no further objections to her life in the convent. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on April 30, 2000. She experienced also many extraordinary graces such as: apparitions, ecstasies, the gift of bilocation, hidden stigmata, reading into human souls, the mystical betrothal and nuptials. Divine Mercy Sunday is the perfect day to start listening to what Jesus himself tells us: (1) "I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor . Shortly before she died she sat up in bed and asked Mother Superior to come up closer. Her relics are in the Shrine of the Divine Mercy at agiewniki, Krakw. Theologians say the message revealed to Saint Faustina "is a powerful reminder of who God is and has been from the very beginning. I felt extremely happy, I thought I had entered life in paradise. She noted down the words of Jesus, her prayers, contemplation and the more important events, including her last three-day retreat given her by Jesus Himself before the Feast of Pentecost. She continued to make entries in her diary almost to the end of June. Towards the end of April 1932 she came to Krakw for an eight-day retreat which was to be followed by her perpetual vows. I do not fear death, my soul abound in great peace. Born in the village of Gogowiec, near d, in Poland in 1905, and dying in Krakow in 1938, Saint Faustina spent her short life amongst the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, generously conforming herself to the vocation she received from God and developing an intense spiritual life, rich in spiritual gifts and in faithful harmony with them. At one point, I got a strong feeling that I had been rejected by God. Saint Faustina Kowalska is known for her love and devotion to Jesus, especially His Divine Mercy. 9 in the Kronieska, and worked for three ladies who were Tertiaries of St. Francis. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Oh, what pain they cause Me when they do not want to accept My mercy. The mystery of Divine Mercy took up the central position in Sister Faustinas life and apostolic work. Join the "Apostle of Mercy" as you prepare for Christ's birth! Whatever you ask for at that hour, for yourself and for others, will be granted you; at that hour grace came upon the whole world mercy superseded justice(Diary 1572), He assured Sister Faustina. Sister Faustinas mission continues and is bringing wondrous fruit. Whenever I received the sacraments I thought I was offending Him even more. At the age of nine, she made her first Holy Communion. Helenka knew this meant going to the chapel. At first she was happy to be leaving, but on the next day was overwhelmed by darkness and felt she had lost Gods presence, so she decided to put off this move a little until her next meeting with her confessor. He wanted that message to radiate out from agiewniki to the whole of Poland and the entire world, and Jesus promise to be fulfilled that a spark which would prepare the world for Jesus final coming would issue from this place (cf. However, she knew that the convent chapel at agiewniki in Krakw would become the shri- ne for the worship of the Divine Mercy. 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). There will be a Feast of Divine Mercy, I see it, all I want is to do Gods will, she told Mother Superior. He didnt say a word to start with. During this conversation she saw Jesus, who confirmed that this was His will, saying, I want such a congregation (Diary 437). On Sunday afternoons Father would take out the Lives of the Saints from the bookcase and read in the family circle. St Faustina Kowalska is one of the most famous saints of the 20th Century, and was the first Saint canonised in the new millennium. That was the family atmosphere of little Helenka, Gods chosen one to be the prophet of our times. Mummy served customers in the shop he recalled years later and Helenka tidied up, helped with the cooking, and had to wash up, carry out the refuse and bring water as there was no running water. Helena Kowalska, known as Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was born on August 25, 1905, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of Ldz, Poland, as the daughter of a farmer. Here I have called you, and to no other place; here I have prepared many graces for you (Diary 19). I also promise it victory over its enemies, already here on Earth, and especially in the hour of death. Tell distressed humankind to come up and cling to My Heart, and I shall fill it with peace. Greater sufferings from those which were caused by tuberculosis, she offered as a voluntary sacrifice for sinners and as the Apostle of Divine Mercy. She thanked me but did not take up my offer. In August 1938 she wrote a letter to Mother General Michaela Moraczewska: Dearest Reverend Mother, I feel this is our last conversation on earth. Father Sopoko had preached a sermon on the Divine Mercy, during which Sister Faustina saw Jesus in the painting assume a living form, and His rays penetrate into the hearts of the people gathered for the ceremony, making them happy. What can you do about it?, 'Well, said Sister Faustina, 'if you have a yard then what with walking across it all week itll get dirty, but come Saturday you sweep it and clean it up and its spotless. She also brought in food for employees who were provided with meals by my parents. 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. Whereas, it turned out, God let her know how much she would suffer. Sister Faustina had achieved the fullness of union with God and sang a hymn in honour of His unfathomable Mercy. 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. By July 1937, the first Divine Mercy holy cards were printed with Sr. Faustina's instructions for praying the Novena of Divine Mercy, which she reported was a message from Jesus. Nonetheless, the suffering was becoming more and more intense. 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