There is every reason to take seriously Jesus, the Divine Mercy as revealed to St. Sister Faustina Kowalska of Krakow, Poland. All that was revealed and happened to her point to the “end times” we now live in.
Unlike other modern mystic events wherein the apparitions were or are of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ Himself had appeared and given messages to Faustina, and among these messages are those that sound apocalyptic (as in the end of our modern era, not the world).
It is wondrous that a few years after Jesus told Faustina (in the 1930’s) that from Poland would come “a spark that will prepare the world for My final coming,” Polish Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II, now a candidate for sainthood. Isn’t this confluence of events alone convincing enough for us to take seriously the messages from Krakow?
The Krakow messages rhyme perfectly with what the Blessed Mother had said, has been saying in her explosion of worldwide apparitions in modern times.
In her apparitions in Medjugorje and Garabandal, for example, the Blessed Mother talked about a warning, a miracle, and, depending on whether making converts, a chastisement as never before experienced in the world.
In Krakow, Jesus also referred to the warning and miracle. In her diary, Faustina quoted Jesus as saying: “Write this: before I come as the Just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy. Before the Day of Justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort…”
Jesus further said: “All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole earth. Then the Sign of the Cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights which will light up the earth, for a period of time. This will take place shortly, before the last day.”
The last day before what? The chastisement, it seems. It can be frightening, but we must be consoled by the other messages of Jesus through Faustina. She also quoted Jesus Divine Mercy as having said the following comforting words for us.
Jesus told Faustina: “I am thrice holy and I detest the smallest sin. I cannot love a soul with the smallest sin; but when it repents, there is no limit to My generosity towards it. My mercy embraces and justifies it.
With My mercy, I pursue sinners along all their paths, and My heart rejoices when they return to Me. I forget the bitterness with which they fed My heart and rejoice at their return.”
But He also said: “Tell sinners that no one shall escape My hand; if they run away from My merciful heart, they will fall into My just hands. Tell sinners that I am always waiting for them, that I listen intently to the beating of their heart…when will it beat for me?
Write, that I am speaking to them through their remorse of conscience, through their failures and sufferings, through thunderstorms and the voice of the Church.
And if they bring all My graces to naught, I begin to be angry with them, leaving them alone and giving them what they want.”
We will continue with Jesus Divine Mercy in the next column.
