St. Faustina is celebrated each year as an Optional Memorial on October 5. Then she saw the powerlessness of the Angel, who could not administer the just punishment for the sins of mankind. Jesus does not ask you to suffer beyond your capacity. When I recall she confessed that in a few days time I am to be made one with the Lord by my perpetual vows, my soul is inundated with such unimaginable joy that I just cant describe it at all (Diary 231).The ceremony for her perpetual vows was conducted by Bishop Stanisaw Rospond on 1 May 1933. I gave her the prayers and said good-bye, and she said, 'See you in heaven. 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. One day I went to Prdnik to visit her Sister Kajetana Bartkowiak recollected I knocked on the door. 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. Sister Felicja was surprised that the doctor allowed her to go to Mass despite her poor condition. He asked her to hold the moment of His death on the cross in veneration. Writing about her experience viewing Heaven, the saint wrote: I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God. And it is to prepare the world for His second coming. He preached conferences on spiritual struggle, sacrifice, prayer, and mercy. "The Divine Mercy of Jesus, also known as the Divine Mercy, is a Roman Catholic devotion to Jesus Christ associated with the apparitions of Jesus to Saint Faustina Kowalska. Mother General Michaela Moraczewska visited all the Congregations houses and spoke on the great mission for which God had chosen Sister Faustina. 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. Here are some more interesting facts: The joy brought by the accomplishment of Jesus requests, the painting of the picture and its display for public veneration on the first Sunday after Easter, the envisaged Feast of Divine Mercy, did not last long because already in May 1935 Sister Faustina felt intuitively that there would be new tasks which she was very anxious about. Prayer for the intentions of Our Holy Father, the Pope. One day she saw there an extraordinary light. What was the main message that Jesus told St Faustina? The chapel was decorated for a feast day, and on this day it was open to everyone, anyone who wanted [to attend]. The Roman Catholic devotion and venerated image under this Christological title refers to what Faustina's diary describes as "God's loving mercy". She is known and venerated within the Church as the Apostle of Divine Mercy. But with Sister Faustina the girl changed and was never the same again. 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. Saint Faustina: Her Early Virtues Oct 03 2018 October 5 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of St. Faustina and her entrance into eternal life. From a very tender age she stood out because of her love of prayer, work, obedience and her sensitivity to the poor. Sister Faustina put an immense amount of confidence in Mother Michaela, who helped her tremendously in the accomplishment of her vocation and was the woman of providence for the recognition of the mission of prophecy. The sisters in the refectory got up from table and went upstairs, where Sister Faustina was lying in her room. I knew at once it was an error. For 18 years she directed the spiritual and apostolic life of the entire Congregation which, following Sister Faustinas visions, she entrusted to the care of Mary, Mother of Mercy, the Congregations heavenly Superior General. Sister Faustina told him that his chief concern was to be the establishment of the Feast of the Divine Mercy in the Church and not to worry too much about the new congregation, and that there would be signs which would let him know what to do in this matter. 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. That was the quiet, godly influence Sister Faustina had on sinful souls. Tell souls of His great mercy, while there is still time for mercy; if you should remain silent now, you shall be held responsible on that terrible day for a great number of souls. 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. These words stirred her deeply, and although she pretended not to have heard them she understood them but for the time being did not tell anyone of them. Where, if not in Divine Mercy, will the world find rescue and the light of hope? 30 on Parzczewska St. (now 1 Maja 7 St.) and they needed help with the housework and looking after their only son Zenek. She felt that she loved God and was loved in return. One day, Sister Eufemia Traczyska recalled, when we were peeling apples at work in the bakery Sister Faustina came in. But already after three weeks she observed that there was little time in the convent for prayer, and wanted to move to a stricter order. At night, when she prayed prostrating herself on the floor, she saw the tortured face of Jesus and asked, Who has hurt You so much, Jesus? Jesus replied, You will cause Me such pain if your leave this Order. On Sunday afternoons Father would take out the Lives of the Saints from the bookcase and read in the family circle. On that day are open all the Divine floodgates through which graces flow; let no soul fear to approach Me, even if its sins be as scarlet (Diary 699). Word went round in the Pock convent that Sister Faustina had had a vision. I agreed on condition that the painting be put up to decorate the window of the arcade. The sister who had come to wake up Sister Amelia had gone to the wrong cell and woken me instead. Right at that moment, I was transfixed by the Divine light, and I felt I belonged solely to God; and I experienced supreme spiritual freedom, such as I had never had any idea of before (Diary 1681). That terrible thought pierced my soul right through. However, impelled by the vision of the Suffering Christ, in July 1924 she left for Warsaw to find a place. St. Faustina's life was an imitation of Christ's sacrifice in . Know that should you fail to have this picture painted and neglect all this work of mercy, on the Day of Judgement you shall be held to account for a great number of souls (Diary 154), He told her. Along with great physical and spiritual suffering there were also vast graces, which Sister Faustina did not divulge to anyone except her confessors. But her arguments always won. The Feast of the Divine Mercy has entered the universal Churchs liturgical calendar for good. I went to bed at the usual time, Sister Eufemia recollected, and was soon asleep. The One to whom I have made my vows is my husband and therefore your son-in-law. Her superiors sent her first to the Congregations house in nearby Walendw, where an eight-day annual retreat was just starting under the direction of the Jesuit Father Edmund Elter, a professor of ethics, homiletics and rhetoric at the Gregorianum University in Rome. She was an able pupil and a keen learner, but had to leave after just three years to make room for the younger children. He asked Sister Faustina to do the Stations of the Cross at the hour of His death, but if duty prevented this, to come to the chapel for a short moment of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and if even that was out of the question, to devote a brief moment to prayer wherever she was. The doctor, the nurses, the patients they were all very good to her. She also helped not only those who were dying in the sanatorium, but thanks to the gift of bilocation also those dying in another part of the hospital or even hundreds of miles away. The name Faustina is a girls name of Spanish, Latin origin meaning fortunate one. 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. 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The Story of St. Faustina. The moment I took back the cup from him, he let me know that He was the Lord of Heaven and Earth. Every day He gave her a subject for contemplation and points for meditation. She was magnanimous and devoted her entire life to the saving of souls. He directed her to his acquaintances, Aldona and Samuel Lipszyc, in Ostrwek in the district of Klembw, who needed a nanny for their children, with a note saying that he did not know the girl but hoped she would be useful. It was around eleven at night. Life in the Kowalski household went on at a tranquil place marked out first by prayer and then work, never the other way round. Although she had already realised that the new congregation would be a great work in the Church, comprising mens and womens congregations as well as lay associations, as she wrote to Father Sopoko in April 1936, she was still convinced that her role in this was to found a contemplative order. Already on her third day there she had evidence of the efficacy of the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy Jesus had given her. Her soul was in special communion with the Holy Spirit, whose inspiration filled it with indescribable ecstasy, and her heart was flooded with thanksgiving for such vast graces. Pilgrims started to come to her grave in the agiewniki Convent and pray for her intercession. 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. Saint Faustina saw visions of Heaven. He promised the grace of a blessed and tranquil death not only to those who say the Chaplet, but also those at whose deathbed others will say the Chaplet. Soon after that mysterious event she returned to Gogowiec to ask her parents permission to enter a convent. Then she whispered, Jesus wants to elevate me and make me a saint. Mother Magorzata Gimbutt was replaced by Mother Jzefa Brzoza, who had been trained for the office in Laval (France), which served the Foundress, Mother Teresa Ewa Countess Potocka ne Sukowska, as the spiritual model for the Congregations religious life and apostolic work in Poland. She wrote: "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I woke Sister Amelia, put on my overall and bonnet and dashed to the infirmary. 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. Anyone who says the Chaplet just once, even should he be the most hardened of sinners, shall receive grace from My infinite mercy (Diary 687). Our dear Novice Mistress bolstered my courage in these difficult moments. At three oclock, beg for My mercy, especially for sinners, and immerse yourself, even for a short moment, in [contemplation on] My Passion, particularly when I was left forsaken at the moment of death. I am suffering as much as I can bear. This all Polish production was released in '95, five years before Sister Faustina's canonization and was most certainly intent on helping promote . Sister Faustinas mission certainly did not end at her death. Jesus made a big sign of the cross over me and I crossed myself. 9 in the Kronieska, and worked for three ladies who were Tertiaries of St. Francis. Sister Eufemia wanted to see how saints die, but she could not exactly count on her superior granting her permission to attend a sister dying of tuberculosis. Helenka looked after her employers children and also after those in need, of whom there was no shortage. On 2 February 1923 Helenka was sent by an employment agency to the house of Mrs. Marcjanna Sadowska, who had a shop at No. In November 1932 Sister Faustina left Pock and returned to Warsaw for the third probation and to prepare for her perpetual vows. He was strict with himself and his children and did not tolerate even the slightest misdemeanour. Sister Faustina Kowalska is one of the Church's most popular and widely known saints and the greatest mystics in the history of . Towards the end of April 1932 she came to Krakw for an eight-day retreat which was to be followed by her perpetual vows. Purified in the passive nights, the powers of her soul no longer put up any opposition: her reason and will longed only for God and whatever He longed for. 6,379 Likes, 75 Comments - EWTN (@ewtnmedia) on Instagram: "Today is St. Faustina's feast day. The lack of a permanent spiritual director and the inability to fulfil the tasks ascribed her made Sister Faustina want to back out of these supernatural inspirations, but Jesus patiently kept on explaining to her the magnitude of the work He had chosen her for. 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. At first Sister Faustina thought that Jesus wanted her to leave her mother Congregation and found a contemplative order. She was the third of ten children born to an impoverished and devout religious family in rural Pennsylvania. My mission will not end at my death. Sister Faustina followed the novice mistress instructions attentively and fulfilled all the duties allotted her with exactitude. For the entire day without intermission, I lived immersed in God (Diary 707-708). Her first period of treatment lasted nearly four months from December 1936 (with a break for Christmas). After just a few weeks in the convent Mother Superior sent the postulant Helenka along with two other sisters to Skolimw, in the suburbs, for reasons of health, which had deteriorated due to the fairly strict fasts practised in the house and in service, and also due to the spiritual experience of a new life in the convent. At the age of seven she had her first undeniable experience of Gods love. 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. The proper liturgical texts were released by the Holy See in Latin.English and Spanish translations must be approved by the USCCB and confirmed by the Holy See before they can be implemented in the . Then I saw her all different, changed, and levitating over the bed, gazing into the distance as if she were looking at something there. Sister Faustina died in Krakow on October 5, 1938, at the age of just thirtythree. 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. It turned out to be a false alarm. She told Sister Boenna Pniewska, who regretted that the agiewniki chapel was available only for the sisters and their charges, There will soon come a time when the convent gate will be wide open and people will come here to pray to the Divine Mercy. The Divine presence flooded my soul; I know I am under the glance of the Mighty One. "After it will come the Day of Justice. I didnt understand any of the things my confessor said to me. the Diary, 1732). Nonetheless, the suffering was becoming more and more intense. As the devotion became more and more widely known the opinion of Sister Faustinas sainthood grew as well. 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. Firstly in Warsaw in the ytnia, in 1929 she went to Wilno to replace Sister Petronela Basiura, who was leaving for her third probation; then she returned to Warsaw and the house in the ytnia, only to be sent off to a new house on the Hetmaska in the Grochw district. If You are my God, please bless me. 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. 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. I also promise it victory over its enemies, already here on Earth, and especially in the hour of death. Saint Faustina Kowalska is known for her love and devotion to Jesus, especially His Divine Mercy. On April 18, 1993, the Holy Father John Paul II raised her to the glory of the altars and on April 30, 2000, numbered her among the saints of the Church. 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. It was Sunday, 22 February 1931. After having said good-bye to Sister Faustina he left her room, but on his way out remembered that he had not left her the booklets with the prayers to the Divine Mercy Jesus had given her. Father Sopoko requested Sister Faustina to ask Jesus about that, too. This religious fervor spread to Helena quickly, as she was known from an early age for her obedience, prayerfulness . For another year she worked as a housekeeper to save some money for a modest monastic trousseau. During these visits she spoke with Dr. Adam Zylber on Sister Faustinas condition. But Sister Faustina was not pleased, although the artist and Father Sopoko did all they could to render as faithful an image of Jesus as possible. To find out more about St. Faustina, click here. That is how Sister Faustinas hospital ministry for the dying started. My second year in the novitiate was coming up. The notification had been issued owing to an erroneous translation of her diary and resulting inappropriate forms of worship. 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. Kowalska has such a blessed child! she used to say in the village. Her mind, will, memory, emotions and all her senses were submitting to God more and more harmoniously and preparing her soul for full union with Him. 2. ultimate desires God has for His dear children. Sister Faustina continued to keep her diary in Krakw, recording not only Jesus words and her extraordinary mystical experiences, but also deeply moving contemplation on the mystery of Divine Mercy. The doctor said it was very bad. Sister Faustinas mission continues and is bringing wondrous fruit. Her superiors directed her to priests, and the priests sent her back to her superiors. It was an exhortation Sister Faustina heard many times: Tell the world of My mercy, of My love. In December of the same year she came back to the house in the ytnia, but not for long. That was St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Divine Mercy revelations, who was canonized in 2000 and whose revelations were celebrated Sunday. 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. 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. Sister Faustina is one of the Church's most popular and widely known saints and the greatest mystics in the history of the Church. It was yet another task which seemed to transcend her capabilities. Your email address will not be published. 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. Souls that venerate the image of Divine Mercy will not perish In her diary, Saint Faustina recorded the words of Christ regarding the image. As I was a senior novice I had to act as her guide (angel). This conduct was inspired by Helenkas fervent faith and concern to be like Jesus trusting in the Heavenly Father even when He was on the cross and Who was meek and humble throughout His life, loving all people with a patient, understanding, and indescribably self-sacrificing love. In Vilnius Sister Faustina was to work in the garden, although she had not any experience in this duty. I do not fear death, my soul abound in great peace. 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. 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. One of them was Janek, who was said to be lapsed. 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. In her soul she heard Jesus words: Say the Chaplet I have taught you (Diary 810). On the next day when she entered the chapel Jesus instructed her once more how she was to say the prayer on an ordinary rosary. It has today become known as the most important place in the history of the Divine Mercy message and devotion. The Diary has been translated into more than 20 languages, including, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak . First, say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and the Apostles Creed; next, on the Our Father beads you will say Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world; and on the Hail Mary beads you will say these words, For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. At the end, you will say these words three times, Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world (Diary 476). For it was in Divine Mercy that the world would find peace, and mankind happiness. From a very tender age she stood out . With trustful prayer at three oclock in the afternoon, offered on the merit of His Passion, is connected a promise of all graces which would be granted to the petitioners and all for whom they prayed, naturally provided that the grace asked for was in agreement with the will of God, i.e. She died on Oct. 5, 1938, after being chosen by Jesus and Mary to become the unlikely apostle of the Divine Mercy. 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. It is continuing and bringing forth wondrous fruit. Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; c. 1181 - 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. 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