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Summary: Interesting and Intense Logs
Review: Sister M. Faustina Kowalska's diary describes her valient journey from a mortal existance to her destiny of doing the lords work. This book captures the rebellion of many Catholic adolecents. The struggles and pain this woman went through in order to follow her calling of being a nun is very admirable. The deep love she had for God and the Virgin Mary strongly impulsed her to take drastic measures in her youth and the details in her own words (translated from Russia to English)
makes the reading experience quite intense. You'll find it hard to put her book down. You'll find yourself going back and forth tring to link certain details. You might even find it relates to your own life. I highly recommend this book for troubled youths.
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Summary: Brilliance of a Polish Nun
Review: St. Faustina uses brilliant words, and reveals how close her soul is to her Divine Spouse. This work is truly one of the best spiritual books out there, with quotes of things Jesus told St. Faustina to write down. He commanded her to write the diary, telling her that it would save many souls. I recommend this book for all souls aspiring perfect sanctity as well as those devoted to the Chaplet of Divine Mery.
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Summary: Divine Mercy: Love From the Heart of Christ
Review: The Diary of Saint Faustina is a most beautiful collection of words from our dear Savior to humanity.The message of Divine Mercy is Christ's plea to mankind. This book helps one to find practical ways of showing mercy to one's neighbor.As Christ told Saint Faustina, "The soul which will trust in My mercy is most fortunate, because I Myself take care of it." This book will show you how to love Christ with all of one's heart, soul and strength.
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Summary: A wonderful spiritual diary in which to learn and grow from.
Review: The Divine Mercy in My Soul by Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska or the "Apostle of the Divine Mercy," is very much a passionate and eye-opening diary, comprising of six notebooks, that are filled with divine insights on or from God, His will, His joys, sorrows, and in essence, what it is to be a human being. In an age of intense religious doubt and sarcasm, especially by young people, Saint Faustina's diary is vast yet intensely focused. Her loving written homages, irrelevant if she was suffering various crosses or experiencing ecstasies, are deeply sincere and very moving: "O God of fathomless mercy, who allow me to give relief and help to the dying by my unworthy prayer, be blessed as many thousand times as there are stars in the sky and drops of water in the ocean! Let Your mercy resound throughout the orb of the earth, and let it rise to the foot of Your throne, giving priase to the greatest of Your attributes; that is, Your incomprehensible mercy...(P. 327. Notebook II)". The intimate written communions as expressed in the diary not only shed light but also to some extent open the floodgates as to how anyone who is sincere in heart and mind can go about experiencing an intimate communion with God. But then a question arises. Are people at least willing to meet God half way? And the answer, for the most part is, not usually, for that involves delving into the mysterious, and that can sometimes act as the nightstick that can keep people unnecessarily fearful and hesitant. Saint Faustina not only met God half way, she leapt into the totality of Him and His greatness, and that speaks volumes that no words can adequately convey. On the whole of it, the diary is very comforting, inspiring and insightful. It has and will continue to do so since its publication, inflame the spark in readers that they did not even know was present. Venerable Matt Talbot, who one day may be declared the patron saint of alcoholics and addicts once wrote, It is constancy God wants. Saint Faustina, I believe upon reading the diary, more than fulfilled that obligation.
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Summary: Understanding God in Human Terms
Review: There appears to be a common thread among all the current faithful that there is a disconnect between God and man. Not that God doesn't exist, but more that he watches and judges us from afar until the end of our life. This book truly demonstrates how not true that idea really is. You can not help but fall in love with God while reading this remarkable book which unveils so much of God's awe in human terms that can be understood. And for many, it will be a first glimpse of how unfathomable God's love is for each one of us. The book is not so much a narrative of Saint Faustina's life as it is really the journey of her discovery of Jesus and His desparation for our love of Him. For those currently in a state of confusion as to how God can steep down to us simple human kind, this book will put an immense amount of questions to rest and bring true enlightenment to how simple God intended our faith to be. Complete with footnotes, the integrity of the original writings of Saint Faustina is convincingly pure. I recommend it both for Catholics who yearn for a deeper faith but even more for non-Catholics who are looking for a true understanding of God's intent to have a vibrant relationship with each of us, while we are still here on earth as much as during the life after.
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Summary: Understanding God in Human Terms
Review: There appears to be a common thread among all the current faithful that there is a disconnect between God and man. Not that God doesn't exist, but more that he watches and judges us from afar until the end of our life. This book truly demonstrates how not true that idea really is. You can not help but fall in love with God while reading this remarkable book which unveils so much of God's awe in human terms that can be understood. And for many, it will be a first glimpse of how unfathomable God's love is for each one of us. The book is not so much a narrative of Saint Faustina's life as it is really the journey of her discovery of Jesus and His desparation for our love of Him. For those currently in a state of confusion as to how God can steep down to us simple human kind, this book will put an immense amount of questions to rest and bring true enlightenment to how simple God intended our faith to be. Complete with footnotes, the integrity of the original writings of Saint Faustina is convincingly pure. I recommend it both for Catholics who yearn for a deeper faith but even more for non-Catholics who are looking for a true understanding of God's intent to have a vibrant relationship with each of us, while we are still here on earth as much as during the life after.
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Summary: Indispensable to spiritual growth
Review: This is one of the most spiritually enriching books I have ever read. The insights into how God works in our lives is spellbinding. What Jesus asks of Faustina is truly remarkable. It is sometimes hard to read, not because of the text but because of the sacrifices she is asked to make on behalf of others. One of the real eye-opening insights comes in paragraph 301 in which Jesus tells Faustina that to know God we should meditate on His attributes, and that the greatest attribute of God is His mercy. This book should be in the spiritual library of everyone seriously seeking to develop their relationship with God.
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Summary: Absolutely essential for anyone interested in mysticism!
Review: This is the beautiful diary of Sister Faustina, the Polish nun who through mystical visions and inner locutions recieved the messages of Divine Mercy. These writings are a true vehicle of grace, uplifting and encouraging all who read them.Highly recommended for anyone interested in Christian mysticism - a true text of our times.
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Summary: A Beautiful Reflection On God's Divine Mercy Toward Sinners
Review: This work of St. Faustina's is a journal of Jesus' private revelation to this great saint of God's Divine Mercy.The Catholic Church has always taught that public revelation ended at the death of the last Apostle. Private revelation, that given to one or a few people, is only binding on the individual receiving that revelation. The private revelation, such as that to St. Faustina, must not be in contradiction to the deposit of faith (Scripture & Apostolic Tradition) given us by the Apostles. In short, it must be orthodox. The revelation to St. Faustina is perfectly orthodox and does not contradict the public revelation given to us once and for all by Christ and His Apostles. In short, there is nothing unorthodox about the message that God's mercy for all sinners is boundless. This diary is faith confirming in the love of God. However, the purchaser of this diary must understand that it is a diary. You will find the message of Divine Mercy from the beginning of the diary until the very end. Because the message is so consistently provided for in the diary, the reader cannot expect this diary to read as a novel would with a build-up and a climax at the end. There is some progress towards a climax, however. Unfortunately, that progress towards a climax is St. Faustina's recollection of the progress of the disease in her body which caused her death. She suffered immense physical suffering. What most impresses me about St. Faustina is her complete trust and love for Christ. I've never read or heard of such complete devotion to Christ. This love for Christ expressed itself in a profound love for sinners. St. Faustina would have died for the worst of sinners and wished to bring all people to the love of God's mercy. St. Faustina also chronicles her sufferings at the hands of the other sisters in the convent. Many of them would ridicule her as though her sanctity was intended not for love of God or souls but for her own self-importance. There was nothing self-important about this great Saint. This ridicule even occurred as St. Faustina did good for others in the convent. Some sisters mockingly, and I believe enviously, nicknamed her "dump" because she was a repository for the grief of so many other sisters in the convent. The diary is long, but the message is graciously true. Jesus told St. Faustina to write all that she heard in her diary. Christ told her, "Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God. All the works of my hands are crowned with mercy." This diary is St. Faustina's work of love to do just that.
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