#St Faustina

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"God is Love, and His Spirit is Peace. I see now that my deeds which have flowed from love are more perfect than those which I have done out of fear."

- The Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska

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In difficult moments, I will fix my gaze upon the silent Heart of Jesus stretched on the Cross, and from the exploding flames of His merciful Heart, will flow down upon me power and strength to keep fighting.

– St. Faustina

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Jesus is our Hope: through His merciful Heart, as through an open gate, we pass through to Heaven. ~ Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska, 1570

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146 Prayer. - A soul arms itself by prayer for all kinds of combat. In whatever state the soul may be, it ought to pray. A soul which is pure and beautiful must pray, or else it will lose its beauty; a soul which is striving after this purity must pray, or else it will never attain it; a soul which is newly converted must pray, or else it will fall again; a sinful soul, plunged in sins, must pray so that it might rise again. There is no soul which is not bound to pray, for every single grace comes to the soul through prayer.

-St. Faustina's diary

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𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍, 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍. 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒘. 𝑫𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒎, 𝑰 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉, 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒚, 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅; 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑺𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔.

𝑺𝒕. 𝑭𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂'𝒔 𝑫𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚 1287

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"We expect to obtain everything promised us by Jesus in spite of all our wretchedness. For Jesus is our Hope: through His merciful Heart, as through an open gate, we pass through to Heaven."

Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

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“The past does not belong to me; the future is not mine; with all my soul I try to make use of the present moment.”

St. Faustina

Art Credit: Kaoru Yamada

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Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska

1905 - 1938

Feast day: October 5

Patron of Mercy

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska was born in Glogowiec, Poland in 1905. The third of ten children from a poor family, she had little formal education. After applying to various convents in Warsaw, she was finally accepted by the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1925. For years Saint Faustina received revelations and visits from Christ. On Good Friday 1937, Christ appeared to her and dictated to her the prayers that He wished her to pray in a novena from Good Friday through the Octave of Easter, now known as Divine Mercy Sunday. Saint Faustina died in 1938, in Krakow, Poland, of tuberculosis. 

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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St. Faustina's diary, paragraph 87

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1397 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.

-St. Faustina's diary

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"𝘔𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴."

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