
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Author: St. Faustina KowalskaPublisher: Marian Press
Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Format: Paperback
Pages: 730
9781596141100
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska is a true bestseller that has birthed the devotion to the Divine Mercy. An offshoot of the Sacred Heart Devotion, the Divine Mercy is one of the fastest-growing movements in the world today. St. Faustina's Diary will stir your heart and soul while it chronicles her struggles, her mystical encounters with Jesus, and her tremendous consolations. Learn why St. Faustina is one of the most popular saints today!
In the Diary, St. Faustina's 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."
How did St. Faustina grow in deeper trust and intimacy with Jesus? What promises did He make to her? The answers to these questions and more can be found in Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska.
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 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 call her "the great apostle of Divine Mercy in our time."