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Original Title:	Dzienniczek: Miłosierdzie Boże W Duszy Mojej
ISBN:	1596141107 (ISBN13: 9781596141100)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.faustyna.pl/

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Gotta admit, this is one of my all-time GO-TO reads for times - like these, especially - when my elderly mind is darting anxiously like quicksilver lightning.

Lately I’ve turned off my on-screen “breaking news” bulletins too, and while that helps, my own self-repeated postmodern questioning doesn’t.

Enter this shy early twentieth century Sister with help...

With an unlikely temperament.

For at this same time, James Joyce was showing off snippets of his soon-to-be published Anti-Establishment Bête Noire, his Ulysses - with its amazing Streams of Consciousness - over at the little Shakespeare and Company reading room in downtown Paris.

But, you know, this reclusive Sister in nearby Poland was just then writing this MASTERPIECE of a scrupulously reverent and acutely ethical Stream of Consciousness all on her own - WITHOUT Joyce’s influence!

If you’ve ever read the luminous confessions of another Saint, from the previous generation - the Story of a Soul by St. Thérèse - you’ll know what I mean:

For that’s tantamount to plunging into St. Faustina’s tell-all supernatural memoir - cause you’re entering a life filled with that SAME candour, and that SAME luminosity.

But this book embraces rather than eschews St. Therese’s NO-NO’s wholeheartedly, as well.

And that’s where Faustina differs, and really TAKES OFF...

With supercharged scrupulousness; dense spiritual thickets so familiar to an unknown contemporary, Pessoa; and the three-dimensional other-worldly visions that very few saints - and much fewer of us - will ever experience.

Naturally Faustina continually finds herself skating on thin ice.

Or deep in a Dark Wood.

O De Profundis, Domine...

Truth is uncool in our world. Lies are comfortable. But there’s no comfort in them for this heroic woman.

How does she get back home again? Well, her sole recourse is in the Passion of the Lord - and her only remaining option is to throw herself, as Nothing, at His feet.

She is indeed that anonymous Christian who, we are told with divine candour, takes Heaven by Storm.

Or Ursula le Guin’s anonymous tormented soul in her great story The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas?

That’s really not such a bad thing, says Faustina.

Because it’s her only available option.

Or maybe it IS bad, she’ll think again in a trice, because she’s ever so Low on the heavenly totem pole.

Which is it?

And thus more abundant power and insight - and biting angst - always accrues to her soul!

She becomes in the end, somehow, Truly Blessed.

I wish I could resolve my anxiety like that! Cause the only way I can resolve it eventually is with common sense - but I’m not often saintly.

Her humility is so boundless.

This book is the Story of a rich homemade Soup of a Soul. And it is also magnificent. Most guys I know, even Catholic, could never, ever, slog through all the angst and surreal word-pictures of this saga.

But what word-pictures they are!

Each one tremulously put into place with fear and trembling, like hot bricks fresh from the kiln of the saint’s mind - to produce, by the end of the book, a Towering Cathedral of divinely-inspired Vision.

The world can’t abide books like this for too long! Nor can the Evil One...

So when John Paul II read this remarkable thick book in the original Polish, a long time ago as a young man, he SAW it was much like a loose maverick locomotive roaring through the depths of his soul - and changing him.

And Faustina’s Divine Mercy, because of him, would later become a Holy Feast Day, a Jubilee Year, and a recognized Objective of the Church.

All because of one wonderfully and unselfconsciously anxious woman, who here transforms reams upon reams of her life into a big, thick Book...

A book that, all on its own - and with a little help from Above - May one day CHANGE THE WORLD -

By showing it the awesome, and very Real, Face of Divine Mercy.

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Title	:	Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
Author	:	Maria Faustyna Kowalska
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 730 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2005 by Marian Press (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Christianity. Catholic. Religion. Spirituality. Nonfiction. Faith. Christian. Biography

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A real gem among the world's mystic literature.A fascinating glimpse into the inner life and struggles of a person who was a genuine mystic.Sister Faustina appeared to be an average strangely behaving scrupulous person who was perhaps suffering from hallucinations.However, in her diary, saint Faustina reveals her rich and intense inner life. She does not pretend to be a perfect person. She is not ashamed to admit huge struggles and self-doubt she had to face. Her strong relationship with God was

I read an earlier printing of this book. Intense read..I love reading about her conversations with Jesus. The intimacy of her friendship with Him is something I find enormously consoling - because I know how much He desires this same intimacy with all of us.

This book changed my life on how I trust in Jesus and forgiveness. The beautiful thing about it is that it is a diary and you can read a bit at a time and soak it all in. It is wonderful to take to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and meditate on what St Faustina has to say and what Jesus said to her. This book is a precious gift! It gives us all something to strive for spiritually that is for sure. The funny thing is when I read this a lot of times something in my life occures that coincides

Written from the wrenching heart of a young woman who at first did not believe there was a space on this planet for her much less the beautiful one assigned to her by a loving Savior. A frank and at times terrifying and at others so warm and loving, this book is an accounting of the few short years of Sr. Faustina's life, one that eventually led to sainthood. I have also listened to this book on CD and it was beautifully done and followed the book precisely. It was actually easier to listen to

Gotta admit, this is one of my all-time GO-TO reads for times - like these, especially - when my elderly mind is darting anxiously like quicksilver lightning. Lately Ive turned off my on-screen breaking news bulletins too, and while that helps, my own self-repeated postmodern questioning doesnt.Enter this shy early twentieth century Sister with help...With an unlikely temperament.For at this same time, James Joyce was showing off snippets of his soon-to-be published Anti-Establishment Bête

LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very inspiring and insightful look into the life a mystic....and developing a profound devotion to divine mercy of GOD! :)

I would give this 10 stars if I could. Actually, it is beyond a start rating. Approved by the Catholic Church and writen by St. Faustina, this exploration of Christ's Mercy is a must read for every Catholic, especially for any with a devotion to the Sacred Heart.