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Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul was written by Kowalska. [39] The book is based on the contents of her diary from 1925 until her death in 1938. [40] It was while assigned to Vilnius that Kowalska was advised by her confessor, Michael Sopoćko, to keep a diary and record her apparitions. [11] Kowalska's diary is the only mystical text composed in ...
Kowalska was a Polish nun who joined the convent of Our Lady of Mercy, in Warsaw, in 1925. [3] [4] In her diary, which was later published as the book Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, Kowalska wrote about a number of visions of Jesus and conversations with him. [3] Her confessor was Michael Sopocko, a priest and a professor of theology. [3] [4]
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.
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the "secretary" of Divine Mercy.
Kowalska wrote of the revelations of Jesus about the chaplet in her diary (Diary 474-476) while she was in Vilnius on 13 and 14 September 1935. [8] [9] Kowalska recounted a vision in which she saw an angel of divine wrath sent to the earth to punish it for its sins. Kowalska began to pray so that the angel would hold off and the world do penance.
Sopoćko was very supportive of the Divine Mercy devotion of Faustina Kowalska and in her diary (Notebook V, item 1238) she stated: "This priest is a great soul, entirely filled with God." Since 1931 Kowalska had been trying (without success) to find someone to paint the Divine Mercy image until Sopoćko became her confessor in the middle of 1933.
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]
In her diary, Divine Mercy In My Soul, Saint Faustina Kowalska relates her own experience of a miracle of roses. During her novitiate, she was assigned kitchen duties and found it difficult to drain the water from the pot filled with potatoes due to her increasing weakness.
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