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distressed mankind to nestle close to My merciful Heart, and
I fill them with peace (III, 20). . . Mankind
will not find peace until it turns with confidence to My
mercy (I, 130).
These words,
that point to everyone’s basic yearning and to the true
cause of deep unrest in all too many a soul, are believed –
trustworthy authority – to have been spoken by Our Lord
Jesus Christ during the 1930’s to Saint M. Faustina Kowalska
of Poland.
This young
nun, little known during her lifetime even within the circle
of her own religious community, but whose name and photo
encircled the globe within ten years of her saintly
departure from this life, wrote:
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I sense that my mission does not
end with death, but will begin then. O doubting souls, I
will lift the veil of heaven for you, to convince you of
God’s goodness, so that you would no longer wound the
sweetest Heart of Jesus with distrust. God is Love and
Mercy. (I, 124) |
It pleased
Our Lord, by means of this Sister’s courageous cooperation
with His will and grace, to reveal to the world new forms of
devotion to God as Mercy, a devotion he considers dormant in
the Church from long ago, and for too long (I, 142, 160).
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