St. Maria Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), known as the Apostle of Divine Mercy, was a Polish nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy who received from Jesus the revelations now embodied in the Divine Mercy devotion. Born Helena Kowalska in the village of Głogowiec in partitioned Poland, the third of ten children, she worked as a domestic servant before entering religious life at age twenty. From 1931 until her death from tuberculosis at thirty-three, she received a series of revelations from Christ — recorded at her spiritual director's order in her Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, which has become one of the most-read Catholic spiritual writings of the modern era. The principal elements Christ entrusted to her were: (1) the Image of Divine Mercy — Christ standing with rays of red and pale light streaming from His pierced side, with the inscription 'Jesus, I trust in You'; (2) the Feast of Divine Mercy — the Sunday after Easter, instituted by St. John Paul II for the universal Church in 2000; (3) the Chaplet of Divine Mercy — a Rosary-based prayer of mercy for sinners; (4) the Three O'Clock Hour of Mercy — the daily 3:00 PM remembrance of Christ's death. Her writings were suppressed by the Vatican for nearly twenty years (1958-1978) for translation issues that obscured the original Polish text; after the correction, the suppression was lifted, and Faustina was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II on April 30, 2000 — the first canonization of the third millennium and the same day he established Divine Mercy Sunday. Her tomb at the Łagiewniki Sanctuary in Kraków is now one of the most-visited pilgrimage sites in Europe. The novena to St. Faustina is appropriate for: any urgent intention requiring God's mercy (the patron use case), the conversion of distant family or grievously sinful situations, the dying (Faustina herself died with great devotion to the dying), and as preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday (Faustina's own Divine Mercy Novena begins Good Friday and runs through Divine Mercy Sunday).
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St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
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Pray once daily for nine consecutive days. The novena is traditionally prayed in the nine days leading up to the Feast of St. Faustina (October 5) or — more commonly — as part of the Divine Mercy Novena itself, which begins Good Friday and runs through Divine Mercy Sunday (the Sunday after Easter). The structure: (1) Sign of the Cross; (2) The novena prayer; (3) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy (which Faustina received from Christ; takes about ten minutes — see the separate Chaplet entry for the full pattern); (4) The Three O'Clock Prayer if the novena is being prayed in the afternoon; (5) Name the intention. Many Catholic families read a paragraph from Faustina's Diary each day of the novena (the Diary is published in many languages and is structured into short numbered entries — perfect for daily lectio). The Łagiewniki Sanctuary in Kraków is the principal pilgrimage destination; many parishes have a Divine Mercy Image either as a primary or secondary altar focus. The novena is especially appropriate for: a family member in grave spiritual danger, the bedside of someone dying without faith, in preparation for one's own confession after a long absence, or as a way of teaching the Divine Mercy devotion to children alongside the foundational Marian and Sacred Heart devotions.
St. Faustina, you trusted Jesus and were chosen by Him to be the secretary and apostle of His unfathomable mercy. He revealed to you that mercy is the greatest attribute of God, His name and His glory. From the depths of your humility, intercede for me. I beg you, before the throne of the merciful Christ, obtain for me the grace I now ask (mention your intention). Through your beloved image of Divine Mercy, through your faithful suffering, and through the words 'Jesus, I trust in You' that you wrote on every page of your Diary, plead my cause with the Lord of Mercy. May I, like you, learn to trust completely in the mercy of Jesus, in life and in death. Amen.
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