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When the last day comes, you shall be judged on this.. |
When the last day comes, you shall be judged on this, and on this basis you shall receive the eternal verdict from God''
These are some of the final words of Helen Kowalska now canonised and known as Saint Faustina.
To this young Polish girl from a very isolated and poor rural district in the agricultural heartland of Poland was given an extraordinary message from God for the world. This message, He told her, “was the final hope for mankind”.
How can we trust that this Definitive Message came from God?
When her mystical experiences started in 1921, Helen Kowalska was working as a domestic and she was only a young country girl of sixteen year years of age, working away from home where she knew nobody and had no friends (and we must remember that in 1921 a sixteen year old girl was as innocent as a ten year old girl today).
This very young girl for her time, living in an isolated rural environment with little or no education and no worldly experience and no social distractions would thereby have a simple, pure, and uncomplicated mind, which one must decide could not have had the intellectual ability or the theological understanding of religion to construct or make up a message so profound and theologically correct as the message we know today as the Message of Divine Mercy.
And to come up with a vision of the Lord which was so unusual and different from the images of Jesus that man was used to for the previous two thousand years, and to ask that it be accepted by the Church, especially in conservative Poland of 1931, needed some strength of belief in what she was asked to present to the Church, and had to be influenced from unusual source.
By simple deduction, this extraordinary message and unusual image could not have been the product of this simple minded, uneducated innocent young girl, but had to come from a very extraordinary source - or from God.
And when her writings (which were full of misspellings and bad grammar and obviously not written by an educated hand) were finally examined by experts, it was obvious that firstly to understand this message the examiners had to have a profound knowledge of the liturgy,theology and Catholic doctrine, and after arriving at the conclusion that this document was without a trace of theological liturgical or doctrinal error, they therefore had to conclude after ten years of study, that this message could in fact, only come from God.
Sr. Faustina's mission was to reite-rate the truth of Jesus on the cross, that His passion and death was to demonstrate His love for human-kind and beg mercy from the almighty for a sinful world, remembered by His heartfelt appeal to the Father on the Cross “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”.
And she emphasises that moment when He expired and took His last breath, was the moment when mercy triumphed over justice and He had won for the world a second covenant or second chance for man to gain eternal life.
The Divine Mercy message is to remind us of that forgotten truth of our faith which is God's merciful love for His creation, mankind. The message reveals once again the suffering of Jesus, was to identify with a world that was going to know a lot of suffering, and sacrifice being the only way to eternal life, a new life where God's love reigns supreme. In these revelations to Saint Faustina, Jesus said that he was choosing her to pass on this message to the world.
"Your task is to write down everything that I make known to you about My mercy, for the benefit of those who by reading these things will be comforted in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me"
((Diary Revelations - 1693).
"You will be the secretary of My Mercy, both in this life and the next..." (Diary, 1605)."I desire that the whole world know My infinite mercy" (Diary Revelations - 687).
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