Sr. Faustina:
Prayer and Adoration
Protect From Demonic Attacks
Saint Faustina Kowalska
Sister Faustina was a young nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She was born on August 25, 1905 in Glogowiec, Poland of a poor and religious family of peasants, the third of 10 children. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy on August 1, 1925, and took the name Sr. Maria Faustina of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Sr. Faustina loved the Lord with all her heart and spent virtually every waking moment in prayer. One day, she began to receive extraordinary revelations — and messages — from our Lord Jesus. Jesus asked Sr. Faustina to record these experiences and His words, which she compiled into notebooks. These notebooks are known today as the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, and the words contained within are God's messages of unceasing Divine Love and Divine Mercy.
Sr. Faustina's Diary sparked a great movement, and a strong and significant focus on the mercy of Christ. It brought many people into the church - people who for the first time came to understand the depth and breadth of the Love and Mercy of Jesus Christ.
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My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners.
If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy…
Tell [all people], My daughter, that I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls.
My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners.
If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy…
Tell [all people], My daughter, that I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls.
Jesus, I Trust in You - The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us – all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His Mercy is far greater than our sins. He wants us to call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.
The Divine Mercy message is one we can call be mindful of:
- Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting
of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.
- Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others.
He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.
- Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are
dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive.
~ Saint Faustina is best known for her work, the "Diary of Divine Mercy"(Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul.) In obedience to her spiritual director, she wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations and messages she received about God's mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread.
~ She gave us the "Chaplet of Divine Mercy", a prayer of love and devotion to Jesus and a pleading to God the Father for the sake of the sorrowful passion of His Son.
~ She gave us Divine Mercy Devotions, and ultimately we now have Divine Mercy Sunday - a day of prayer and atonement for Christians across the world.
Preparing For Spiritual Warfare
When Jesus appeared to Sr. Faustina, He told her how to protect herself from the attacks of the devil. He said, "My daughter, I want to teach you about spiritual warfare."Jesus then told her 25 secrets about how to contend with spiritual attacks:
1. Jesus said never trust in yourself but abandoned yourself totally to my will.
2. In desolation, darkness and various doubts, have recourse to me and to your spiritual director. He will always answer you in my name.
3. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in my heart.
4. At the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to your confessor.
5. Put your self-love in the last place, so that it does not taint your deeds.
6. Bear with yourself with great patience.
7. Do not neglect interior mortifications.
8. Always justify to yourself the opinions of your superiors and of your confessor.
9. Shun murmurs like a plague.
10. Let all act as they'd like; you are to act as I want you to.
11. Observe the rule as faithfully as you can.
12. If someone causes you trouble, think what good you can do for the person who caused you to suffer.
13. Do not pour out your feelings.
14. Be silent when you are rebuked.
15. Do not ask everyone's opinion, but only the opinion of your confessor; be as frank and simple as a child with him.
16. Do not become discouraged by ingratitude.
17. Do not examine with curiosity the roads down which I lead you.
18. When boredom and discouragement be against your heart, run away from yourself and hide in My heart.
19. Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptation, and they dare not attack us.
20. Always fight with a deep conviction that I am with you.
21. Do not be guided by feeling, because it is not always under your control; but all merit lies in the will.
22. Always depend upon your superiors, even in the smallest things.
23. I will not delude you with prospects of peace and consolation; on the contrary, prepare for great battles.
24. Know that you are on a great stage where all Heaven and Earth are watching you.
25. Fight like a knight, so I can reward you. Do not be unduly fearful, because you are not alone.
Conquering Spiritual Attacks
Jesus specifically told sister Faustina to fight with the courage and fortitude of a Knight, but not a Knight that serves an earthly king but one who serves the King of Kings.
Jesus assured Sr. Faustina that with devotion to his divine heart, with prayer, and with coming to him on a continual basis she will best be prepared to meet and conquer spiritual attacks against her and her community.
Sister Faustina Kowalska was canonized as a saint on April 30, 2000. She remains a testimony to the great depth of Love and Mercy of Jesus Christ.
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us – all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His Mercy is far greater than our sins. He wants us to call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.
The Divine Mercy message is one we can call be mindful of:
- Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting
of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.
- Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others.
He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.
- Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are
dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive.
~ Saint Faustina is best known for her work, the "Diary of Divine Mercy"(Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul.) In obedience to her spiritual director, she wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations and messages she received about God's mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread.
~ She gave us the "Chaplet of Divine Mercy", a prayer of love and devotion to Jesus and a pleading to God the Father for the sake of the sorrowful passion of His Son.
~ She gave us Divine Mercy Devotions, and ultimately we now have Divine Mercy Sunday - a day of prayer and atonement for Christians across the world.
Preparing For Spiritual Warfare
When Jesus appeared to Sr. Faustina, He told her how to protect herself from the attacks of the devil. He said, "My daughter, I want to teach you about spiritual warfare."Jesus then told her 25 secrets about how to contend with spiritual attacks:
1. Jesus said never trust in yourself but abandoned yourself totally to my will.
2. In desolation, darkness and various doubts, have recourse to me and to your spiritual director. He will always answer you in my name.
3. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in my heart.
4. At the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to your confessor.
5. Put your self-love in the last place, so that it does not taint your deeds.
6. Bear with yourself with great patience.
7. Do not neglect interior mortifications.
8. Always justify to yourself the opinions of your superiors and of your confessor.
9. Shun murmurs like a plague.
10. Let all act as they'd like; you are to act as I want you to.
11. Observe the rule as faithfully as you can.
12. If someone causes you trouble, think what good you can do for the person who caused you to suffer.
13. Do not pour out your feelings.
14. Be silent when you are rebuked.
15. Do not ask everyone's opinion, but only the opinion of your confessor; be as frank and simple as a child with him.
16. Do not become discouraged by ingratitude.
17. Do not examine with curiosity the roads down which I lead you.
18. When boredom and discouragement be against your heart, run away from yourself and hide in My heart.
19. Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptation, and they dare not attack us.
20. Always fight with a deep conviction that I am with you.
21. Do not be guided by feeling, because it is not always under your control; but all merit lies in the will.
22. Always depend upon your superiors, even in the smallest things.
23. I will not delude you with prospects of peace and consolation; on the contrary, prepare for great battles.
24. Know that you are on a great stage where all Heaven and Earth are watching you.
25. Fight like a knight, so I can reward you. Do not be unduly fearful, because you are not alone.
Conquering Spiritual Attacks
Jesus specifically told sister Faustina to fight with the courage and fortitude of a Knight, but not a Knight that serves an earthly king but one who serves the King of Kings.
Jesus assured Sr. Faustina that with devotion to his divine heart, with prayer, and with coming to him on a continual basis she will best be prepared to meet and conquer spiritual attacks against her and her community.
Sister Faustina Kowalska was canonized as a saint on April 30, 2000. She remains a testimony to the great depth of Love and Mercy of Jesus Christ.
