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Faustina (Polish: Faustyna) is a 1995 Polish biographical drama film about Faustina Kowalska, a Roman Catholic nun and mystic whose apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy. Directed by Jerzy Łukaszewicz, it stars Dorota Segda as the titular nun. [1]
The Divine Mercy is a Catholic devotion to the mercy of God associated with the reported apparitions of Jesus to Faustina Kowalska. [1]The Divine Mercy devotion is composed of several practices such as the Divine Mercy Sunday, the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy or the Divine Mercy image, which Kowalska describes in her diary as "God's loving mercy" towards all people, especially for sinners.
Jesus himself promised to Faustina Kowalska: "When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion" (Diary 186). This prayer is often said in the Hour of Mercy (3:00 p.m.), when someone has no time for a longer prayer, like the entire Chaplet, because of the duties (as ...
Faustina, Apostle of Mercy (Polish: Miłość i miłosierdzie) is a biographical, Polish documentary film directed by Michał Kondrat. It traces the life of Faustina Kowalska who was a nun of the Merciful Jesus and Polish mystic nicknamed "the apostle of divine Mercy". [1] The film premiered to cinemas in Poland on 29 March 2019. [2]
Kowalska, Faustina. 2020. Diary: Divine mercy in my soul. Krakow: Misericordia. Online at <https://www.faustyna.pl>. Diary: Divine mercy in My Soul. The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 2003. ISBN 1-59614-110-7; Torretto, Richard (2010). A Divine Mercy Resource. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4502-3236-4. Vatican biography of Faustina Kowalska
The image of the Divine Mercy is a depiction of Jesus Christ that is based on the Divine Mercy devotion initiated by Faustina Kowalska.. According to Kowalska's diary, Jesus told her "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.
William Holman Hunt's 19th century The Light of the World is an allegory of Jesus knocking on the door of the sinner's heart.. The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is a Christian evangelical term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by individuals who feel sin in their lives and have the desire to form or renew a personal relationship.
Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) claimed to have had visited the "chasms of hell" when her guardian angel took her there, where she saw many people who disbelieved in the existence of hell. [31] Faustina also claimed to have seen Catholic nuns in hell for breaking their vows of silence, [32] as well as souls whom God had marked for great holiness ...