“He who carries God in his heart bears heaven with him
wherever he goes.”
St. Ignatius of Loyola
(julie cook / 2013)
While it is the loudest, the brightest and the biggest that currently vies desperately
for attention…
A culture dares to scream out to all who give ear…that bigger is better…
and that even bigger is better still…
It is a time when more equates to satisfaction and it is only in fullness where true
happiness will be found…
Yet it is also oddly a time when more is never truly enough…and the full
are never contently satiated…
It is a time of glaring sensory overload…
when even in sleep a brain is unable to find rest…
Yet Omnipotence continues to seek out the lowly,
capturing the attention of a world gone mad.
A reminder is currently proclaimed…
that it was but a baby who entered the world, humble and meek, who would
in turn, be King.
It was the simple and the vulnerable, the tiny and small, who stopped the world from
spinning…but for the briefest of moments.
Where have all those prophets of old now gone?
Those voices who foretold the glories of Salvation?
Where are those who defied the world while proclaiming both Hope and Peace?
Rest assured, we are told, they have not gone far from view.
They are still very much amongst us.
Walking tiny and small between the giants of this land
They are quieter than the oh so loud and prideful self-consumed…
They are the ones who stop, lingering long enough to listen…those who
will hear the baby’s cry while standing ever so still…
“Write:
I am Thrice Holy, and I detest the smallest sin.
I cannot love a soul which is stained with sin; but when it repents,
there is no limit to My generosity toward it.
My mercy embraces and justifies it.
With My mercy, I pursue sinners along all their paths,
and My Heart rejoices when they return to Me.
I forget the bitterness with which they fed My Heart and rejoice at their return.
Tell sinners that no one shall escape My Hand; if they run away from My Merciful Heart,
they will fall into My Just Hands.
Tell sinners that I am always waiting for them,
that I listen intently to the beating of their heart . . .
when will it beat for Me?”
St. Maria Faustina
excerpt from The Diary of St Maria Faustina
“Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, a simple, uneducated, young Polish nun receives
a special call.
Jesus tells her, “I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world.
I do not want to punish mankind, but I desire to heal it,
pressing it to My merciful Heart.”
Jesus also tells her to record His message of mercy in a diary:
“You are the secretary of My Mercy. I have chosen you for that office in this and the next life.”
These words of Jesus are found in the Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska,
which chronicles Sr. Faustina’s great experience of Divine Mercy in her soul and her mission
to share that mercy with the world.
In the Diary, this woman mystic’s childlike trust, simplicity,
and intimacy with Jesus will stir your heart and soul Her spiritual insights will
surprise and reward you.
“Only love has meaning,” she writes.
“It raises up our smallest actions into infinity.”
(The Catholic Company)
Sister 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.
“Though the Divine Mercy message is not new to the teachings of the Church,
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.”
Speaking of Sr. Faustina and the importance of the message contained in her Diary,
the Pope calls her “the great apostle of Divine Mercy in our time.”
thedivinemercy.org
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