Faustina's Diary
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“The Lord said to me, ‘The loss of each soul plunges Me into mortal sadness. You always console Me when you pray for sinners. The prayer most pleasing to Me is prayer for the conversion of sinners. Know, My daughter, that this prayer is always heard and answered.’” (No. 1397)
"This chaplet (of Divine Mercy) mitigates God’s anger, as He Himself told me.” (No.1036)
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"Neither graces, nor revelations, nor raptures, nor gifts granted to a soul make it perfect, but rather the intimate union of the soul with God...My sanctity and perfection consist in the close union of my will with [God's]."
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A Prophet of MercySister Faustina was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years of simple education, so hers were the humblest tasks in the convent, usually in the kitchen or garden. However, she received extraordinary revelations — or messages — from our Lord Jesus. Jesus asked Sr. Faustina to record these experiences, which she compiled into notebooks. These notebooks are known today as the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, and the words contained within are God's loving message of Divine Mercy.
Sr. Faustina's Diary sparked a great movement, and a strong and significant focus on the mercy of Christ. Saint John Paul II canonized Sr. Faustina in 2000 making her the "first saint of the new millennium." The Pope called her "the great apostle of Divine Mercy in our time."
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Chronology of the Diary of Faustina
1924: Helena (later "Maria Faustina") Kowalska's first mystical encounter with the scourged Christ.
1934: Under obedience, Sister Faustina begins keeping a diary of her spiritual reflections and encounters; her illness begins.
1940: Divine Mercy message begins to propagate among World War II victims.
1942 - 1959: The devotion spreads globally
1959: The Holy Office issues a ban on the Divine Mercy devotion.
1965: Archbishop of Krakow, Karol Cardinal Wotyla, opens cause for canonization
1978: The CDF removes the ban on the devotion to the Divine Mercy.
1980: Marians publish first critical edition of Faustina's Diary; Pope John Paul II (formerly Karol Cardinal Wotyla) issues encyclical on the Divine Mercy.
1986: The Diary is published in English.
1993: Sister Faustina is beatified in Rome.
2000: Sister Faustina is canonized in Rome.
2001: Divine Mercy Sunday is innaugurated across the entire Church on the first Sunday following Easter.
