Maria Faustina Kowalska

Praying with St. Maria Faustina: a Treasury of Prayers from the Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska

Publisher Marketing: For St. Faustina, prayer was the very air that she breathed. It might have been a short, exclamatory prayer she repeated while at work like, King of Mercy, guide my soul or a litany of thanksgiving that she composed while in chapel before the Blessed Sacrament. Nearly 150 prayers drawn from her Diary are arranged in this small book under subjects ranging from Love of God to Night Prayer. Pray every day with the nun whom Pope John Paul II called the Great Apostle of Divine Mercy in our time. Contributor Bio:  Kowalska, Maria Faustina Saint Maria Faustina was born Helena Kowalska in a small village west of Lodz, Poland on August 25, 1905. When she was almost twenty, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, whose members devote themselves to the care and education of troubled young women. In the 1930's, Sister Faustina received from the Lord a message of mercy that she was told to spread throughout the world. She was asked to become the apostle and secretary of God's mercy, a model of how to be merciful to others, and an instrument for reemphasizing God's plan of mercy for the world. She wrote and suffered in secret, with only her spiritual director and some of her superiors aware that anything special was taking place in her life. The message of mercy that Sister Faustina received is now being spread throughout the world; her diary, Divine Mercy in my Soul, has become the handbook for devotion to the Divine Mercy.