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Last week’s show examined the difficult life of a Catholic Saint, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. This week, we will take a detailed look at the divine mission this Saint pursued during her short 33 years of physical life. In a nutshell, Saint Faustina’s mission, in tandem with the mission lives of important compatriots, most notably Blessed Father Michael Sopocko, and Saint Pope John Paul II, was to refocus and elevate the Church’s advocacy of Divine Mercy. Throughout human history, God has gotten a “bad rap,” via the unceasing manipulations of the interlopers. The image of God became one of a harsh, stern, aloof overseer who demanded perfection and judged its nonattainment in the most severe terms. The fascinating mission lives of these Church celebrities, was clearly to attempt to elevate the importance and even primacy of divine mercy over the widespread assumptions and beliefs about divine justice. What can Creator tell us?
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Jeffrie Murphy had this to say in his article about forgiveness and mercy in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “Forgiveness and mercy are regarded as virtues in many moral and religious traditions, although different traditions will emphasize different aspects. The Christian tradition, for example, tends to emphasize purity of heart as the core of the virtue of forgiveness, whereas the Judaic tradition gives priority to the social dimension of reintegration into the covenanted community. Forgiveness involves the overcoming of anger and resentment, and mercy involves the withholding of harsh treatment that one has a right to inflict.” With this assertion, divine mercy would involve the withholding of harsh treatment that the divine “has a right to inflict” via judgment or, more accurately, karma. What is Creator’s perspective?
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Murphy continues: “Both (forgiveness and mercy) allow for healing, but some critics would say that this healing may come at too high a price. Forgiveness, if carried to extremes, can lapse into servility, entailing a loss of self-respect. There are similar paradoxes associated with mercy, particularly in the context of punishment; too strong an emphasis on mercy can lead to a departure from justice. Clearly, though both forgiveness and mercy are obvious virtues, there are difficulties in putting them into practice in the complex situations that make up everyday reality.” What is Creator’s perspective?
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Saint Faustina wrote, “That dreadful thought of being rejected by God is the actual torture suffered by the damned.” She also wrote, “I understood that apart from God there is no contentment anywhere.” What is Creator’s perspective?
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Saint Faustina wrote, “God demands great trust from souls.” This can seem like a paradox, for many people assume that trust is something you either have or do not have, that there is no “choice” involved. And that if a soul does not trust God, then how can such a soul give to God what they do not possess? What is Creator’s perspective?
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Most thoughtful people believe there is truth to the notion, “To whom much is given, much is required.” This can create a dilemma for anyone contemplating asking for assistance, that dilemma is the fear of becoming unwittingly indebted. Saint Faustina wrote, “Once the Lord said to me, ‘Act like a beggar who does not back away when he gets more alms [than he asked for], but offers thanks the more fervently. You too, should not back away of receiving greater graces when I give them to you. I know you are unworthy, but rejoice all the more and take as many treasures from My Heart as you can carry, for then you will be pleased more. And I will tell you one more thing – take these graces not only for yourself, but also for others; that is, encourage the souls with whom you come in contact to trust in My infinite mercy. Oh, how I love those souls who have complete confidence in Me – I will do everything for them.'” This first question for Creator is, were these the words of Jesus or an Anunnaki psychic? If Jesus, what can Creator tell us about the fear that anything from the Divine will have onerous strings attached, and how can we get past that fear, that distrust?
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When Saint Faustina was given instructions from Jesus to have her vision of him painted as a portrait for souls to approach and receive graces and inspiration from, she was further instructed to include the words, “Jesus I trust in you.” Does this suggest that the issue of “trust in the divine,” and the widespread lack thereof, is perhaps the elephant in the room? Is this indeed a significant problem for the bulk of humanity? What percentage of the population would you say have “significant trust issues” with God and anything associated with the divine? As trust is often hard-won, but easily lost, is this why so much emphasis is placed on it?
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It is clearly a divine project to restore trust in the divine. The numerous paintings resulting from the description of Jesus, that Saint Faustina wrote down in her diary, are today venerated throughout the Catholic Church. But recently, in just the last seven years, the young visionary artist Akiane painted a photo-realistic image of Jesus she aptly entitled “Jesus.” The image is remarkable on a multitude of levels. It displays great kindness, and gentleness, but also profound strength and self confidence. Jesus is looking off into the distance with a look of respect, recognition, anticipation, expectation, and reverence. But it truly connotes that whoever Jesus himself is looking at possesses the same qualities he does in even greater measure. That while Jesus is looking up, it is not out of fear of something mightier, but rather more like recognizing the approach of a beloved mentor who is simultaneously your best friend, partner, and confidant. The irresistible impulse for anyone viewing this masterpiece is to not want to stare at Jesus as much as turn our own heads and try to look at what he is looking at. Is it indeed TRUST in the divine that is the inspiration behind this masterpiece?
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Saint Faustina wrote that Jesus said to her, “In convents too, there are souls that fill my Heart with joy. They bear my features; therefore the Heavenly Father looks upon them with special pleasure. They will be a marvel to Angels and men. Their number is very small. They are a defense for the world before the justice of the Heavenly Father and a means of obtaining mercy for the world. The love and sacrifice of these souls sustain the world in existence.” Are these the words of Jesus or an Anunnaki psychic? Are convents sustaining the world? What can Creator tell us?
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The fact we have learned that Saint Faustina heard both the words of Jesus, and those of interlopers, creates a difficult dilemma for anyone wanting to use her diary for inspiration. Perhaps the best advice for us is the same advice her confessor, Father Jozef Andrasz, gave to her early in her vocation, “If these inspirations are not in accord with the faith or the spirit of the Church, they must be rejected immediately as coming from the evil spirit.” Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol are the best means by which we can obtain divine assistance to know what is truly divine in origin, and what is not, as well as obtain the confidence and trust needed to do this consistently?
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Saint Faustina Kowalska was the first canonized Catholic Saint of the new millennium. Born in 1905, she died in 1938 at the young age of thirty-three. She felt the first stirrings of desire for a religious vocation at the age of seven. At age eighteen she attended a dance with her sister. She wrote in her diary that at the dance, she had a vision of a suffering Jesus, who she believed asked her: ‘How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting Me off?’ She then went to the Łódź Cathedral, where, as she later said, Jesus instructed her to depart for Warsaw immediately and to enter a convent. Most people simply don’t have Jesus appear to them suddenly, much less tell them to enter a convent and where to go to do that. What is the backstory of her being able to see and communicate with Jesus without apparent effort on her part? What can Creator tell us?
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In the preface to Saint Faustina’s diary, Archbishop Andrew Deskur wrote of asking a well-known contemporary mystic, Sister Speranza what she thought of Sister Faustina’s writings. Sister Speranza said, “The writings contain a wonderful teaching, but reading them one must remember that God speaks to philosophers in the language of philosophers and to simple souls in the language of simple ones, and only to these last does He reveal truths hidden from the wise and prudent of this world.” What is Creator’s perspective?
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In the introduction, Sister Elizabeth Siepak wrote of Saint Faustina, “The austere lifestyle and exhausting fasts that she imposed upon herself even before joining the Congregation, weakened her organism to such an extent that already during her postulantship (her probationary period) it became necessary to send her to a hospital treatment center to restore her health.” This kind of asceticism is common in monastic life and settings. Why is this kind of life widely thought necessary for spiritual advancement and lofty attainments? What is Creator’s perspective?
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Saint Faustina presented an interesting dilemma as a person. She at once possessed a deep and profound, indeed unshakable belief in the divine, while also possessing an almost entirely antithetical and profound lack of faith and confidence in herself. Since Creator has said time and again that both faith in the divine and faith in oneself as worthy of interacting and petitioning the divine are both necessary for effective and powerful prayer, can Creator share with us what kind of past life history led to Saint Faustina’s exaggerated dilemma?
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Saint Faustina, as revealed in her diary, clearly believed herself “unworthy” of divine favor while, at the same time, desiring it desperately and with every fiber of her being. Her asceticism, fervent and unrelenting prayer were clearly almost desperate-at-times efforts to reconcile herself to the divine, and meet what she believed were nearly unattainable standards of perfection demanded of anyone seeking divine favor. And even though there was a divine mission planned for her, it seems her dilemma almost required the extreme level of daily divine involvement in her life such that Jesus himself had to try and be her therapist, as no one else, literally, was qualified to help her “get past herself?” What can Creator tell us?
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