Catholic during the Great Apostasy

Message: Unconditional mercy

Let’s start with the fact that God’s mercy is misunderstood by most Catholics today. Many today claim that mercy is more important than God’s justice. Well, it cannot be more important, because there is no mercy without justice. God will not say to us: Listen, you don’t deserve heaven because you are sinful, but I will take you there, just like the greatest saints who sacrificed their whole lives to me. It contradicts God’s justice to treat one and the other equally.
Justice rewards good and punishes evil. So first there must be justice and then mercy. The punishments that we have not atoned for at this time await us in Purgatory. Those who think that these are trivialities are mistaken. The whole of Catholic teaching contradicts this.

A much explanatory text on false mercy can be found HERE. Any omission of reparation for our sins, any silence about repentance and conversion, causes us to convey a false image of God’s mercy.

That is why I start the topic of mercy according to Sr Faustina and her ‘vision’ with this quote from the Diary:

Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire lives as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour of death I will not be a Judge for them, but the Merciful Savior. At that last hour, a soul has nothing with which to defend itself except My mercy. Happy is the soul that during its lifetime immersed itself in the Fountain of Mercy, because justice will have no hold on it.

As one can easily see, this contradicts the very fact that God rewards for good and punishes for evil. The passage says that justice can be avoided. Honour mercy and you will not be judged -this is heresy. If someone asks where the widespread notion of unconditional mercy comes from, this is one of the quotations that modernist theologians explain so.

Protestant thinking is based on the same thing: ‘I have sinned, but Jesus himself atoned for me, so that is enough. I have been saved.’ Today’s modern ‘Catholic’ says: ‘I have sinned and will probably continue to sin, but I trust in His mercy and that is enough. He has promised me salvation.’

Well, no –  it is not enough, for we ourselves must also, for our part, contribute to the atonement. Sorrow for one’s sins, humiliation combined with confession, and penance are the requirements of the Lord God. This is what the Catholic Church teaches.

Trusting in the mercy of God as promoted by modernists on the basis of the writings of Sr Faustina leads many to believe that one should not fight one’s own sins, weaknesses and temptations of Satan, but only trust in mercy. Trust and justice will pass you by, for this trust is supposed to be enough to eradicate all sins and inclinations and ensure man’s eternal salvation.

 I desire that these souls distinguish themselves by boundless trust in My mercy. I myself will attend to the sanctification of such souls. I will provide them with everything they will need to attain sanctity. The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is-trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive.

Two flagship quotes from the Diary telling what to do to achieve salvation. Where is the mention of the other requirements that the Church teaches? Perhaps this is why on social media forums it is so common to find the words used underneath all kinds of devotional images or prayer requests: ‘Jesus I trust in you’. Only that these are only ‘incantations’ if they do not involve the aforementioned conditions of prayer of reparation and penance. God will not allow himself to be mocked.

Back to Sr Faustina. The more one delves into the subject of her ‘revelations’ the greater the chaos . Critical texts are almost non-existent. Any attempts to clarify doubts about her words and visions end up with explanations that Sr Faustina ‘was a simple woman’, she wrote as she knew how, so one has to be lenient about theological errors resulting, allegedly, from her incorrect, unclear way of expressing herself, etc.

After all, errors and heresies have always been a reason to ban texts containing them. This is why the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office forbade the dissemination of the contents of the Diary by pulling it up on the Index. It stated:

‘ 1. The dissemination of images and writings which represent the Divine Mercy devotion according to the forms presented by the said Sister Faustina should be prohibited;
2. it is left to the prudence of the bishops to remove the said images which, by chance, could already be exhibited for worship.’

Then the problem disappeared as if by magic, because the modernists are certainly not concerned with the purity of the faith and the doctrine handed down.

In modernism, which is fundamentally the sewage of all heresies, it works the other way round. Instead of prudence and logical reasoning, we have sectarian behaviour, which I have even encountered in priests. Logical conclusions and even doubt for some are heresy.

 

So Sr. Faustina did not know how to express the experience correctly.
The question then becomes, is this not already worthy of the utmost concern? The simple and uneducated children of Fatima, or St Bernadette of Lourdes, or St Catherine Alacoque were able to clearly express a message sent from God. Here we are left to guess, or rather someone has ‘guessed’ for us and the diary has been ‘corrected’ in such a way that we cannot dream of reading the original, since only a few images from the manuscript are publicly available. We have no way of investigating whether it has all been edited – read stretched – for the purposes of worship. We are supposed to ‘trust’, although it is all the more suspicious to hide the original since, some who are aware that the Diary was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, claim that this happened through misunderstandings, bad translations etc.

Ridiculous explanations. This is how supporters of all false messages explain themselves if someone points out errors. The most popular book in the world, and no one knows what the manuscript contains. And there are no competent people to translate it. Fr Sopoćko himself states in his memoirs that when he told Faustina to emphasise in the Diary only what she was sure was not the product of her imagination but something supernatural, she left out many memories of the past. Catholics, on the other hand, are not allowed to doubt anything. The Index no longer exists and the Diary is still ‘forbidden’. Only by the modernists who used it as the foundation of their new religion.

So many theological errors and ambiguities should disqualify such visions, but in the meantime various theories are being advanced to give credence to the Diary. It is possible to conclude that God wanted to make the task of introducing the cult of Mercy more difficult for us (which is absurd) and chose for this purpose Sr. Faustina, who carried out her mission in a controversial manner.

 

Fruits

Let’s look at the fruits. What are the fruits of the introduction of this cult in the form of the diary and the image? Has it not led to the spread of the false charity now condemned, even by some modernist priests? Is not another fruit of the fact that images and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus have been ‘substituted’ for images and devotion to ‘false mercy’ WITHOUT HEART? And of praying the rosary for the chaplet?

Someone has rightly pointed out that the Divine Mercy chaplet promoted by Sr Faustina is recommended even by priests as having greater ‘power’ than the Holy Rosary. A clever move to teach the Rosary prayer.

Our Lady at Fatima and in every other apparition officially recognised by the Church says: Pray the rosary! Many souls are going to hell, so one must repent and pray. He warns of divine punishment. And a dozen years later, supposedly the Lord Jesus from Faustina’s ‘vision’ says that He opens infinite mercy to us, all we have to do is trust and pray the chaplet. Just before the world’s devastating world war, as proof of mercy presumably, and not of punishment for a humanity plunged into ever-increasing sins. Almost no one sees a contradiction here. Logic is forbidden in the modernist sect.

 

Heartless

Not only literally, since the Sacred Heart has disappeared from the new images of Jesus, but seeing the effects of the false mercy preached, one must conclude that it has been given to us to believe, not by Jesus Christ, but by some heartless entity who, instead of salvation, lures us into false promises, at the end of which damnation awaits those who uncritically believe.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque writes -‘He made it known to me afterwards that His great desire that people should love Him more perfectly led Him to consecrate His intention to reveal His Heart to them, opening to them all the treasures of love, mercy, grace, sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order to enrich them with the abundance of divine treasures of which His Sacred Heart is the Source.’

Jesus revealed his Sacred Heart as the source of mercy and all graces, but before the greatest tragedy of the war he changed his mind and this ‘abundance of divine treasures’ turned out to be elsewhere? As if to say: don’t count on that, here you have something more interesting.

It is worth looking at what we have in return and what are the fruits of this exchange.

 

Jesus in the painting according to the vision of s. Faustina is WITHOUT HEART! and we have Mercy, precisely thanks to the Sacred Heart. The cross in the paintings visible above the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is to remind us where this Mercy comes from, what is the price for our sins. There is a cross, and so there is to be sorrow and reparation. There is no unconditional mercy.

We must make reparation for our sins and the sins of the whole world. This is what the apparitions at Paray-Le-Monial and later at Fatima speak of, in which Our Lady seriously warned of punishments if we disobeyed Her words. We disobeyed, and even worse, we entered into even worse errors.

‘At least you try to make reparation to Me, insofar as it is in your power, for their ingratitude’ said the Lord Jesus to St Margaret Mary, and now that ingratitude passes all limits we have messages of mercy excluding justice, the widespread opinion that, mercy is “more important” than justice. Such a ‘bonus’ from the Lord God for our sinful times.

Do you trust in salvation without sorrow, repentance and conversion? Sin as much as you want, repentance is not necessary because there is mercy? The words ‘Jesus I trust in you’ inscribed under the image from the vision. Sr Faustina, despite their rightness in themselves, have become a slogan designed to reassure us of the safety of ‘mercy in spite of all’. Unfortunately, it is not enough to say ‘Jesus I trust in you’ when our lives bear witness to something quite different. It is not a magic incantation.

 

‘This’ image.

Speaking of the image painted according to Faustina’s description, it is difficult not to mention that the image was blessed and approved by Fr Sopoćko, who personally posed for it. As is well known, Faustina did not like the image. And Christ according to Faustina’s account said: ‘I desire that this image be venerated first in your chapel and then by the whole world’ and ’I promise that the soul that venerates this image will not perish.’

It is about ‘THIS’ particular image and not another similar one. The one venerated in the chapel! As we know, a different image of the ‘Merciful Jesus’ has spread throughout the world, so it seems that the faithful were not too concerned with just these words.

‘I promise that the soul that worships THIS image will not perish’.

These words mean, as if the image is some additional way of salvation, in addition to what the Lord Jesus has left us in the Gospel. There are many images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Every devotee knows that the Church teaches to have devotion to the Heart of Jesus, but not to a particular image. You may not even have it in your home, for whatever reason, but that does not mean that in your heart you do not venerate Him, if you fulfil the conditions that the Lord Jesus spoke of to St Margaret.
Here we have a condition: to venerate this image! Otherwise you may not receive salvation. And at the same time, it is not ‘this’ image that is worshipped, but the one that is considered ‘more appropriate’, perhaps prettier. It’s all a matter of ‘feeling’. The essence of modernism.

 

Still at the end of these comparisons, these words of St Margaret :

“This devotion is the last effort of His love and will be people’s only salvation in the last times.”

So again I ask: Has the Lord Jesus changed His mind and told us to put away what He said before? Who today venerates the Sacred Heart and adheres to the words of Jesus given to St Margaret. Didn’t someone ‘heartless’ want and take away the salvation of many Catholics for the ‘last times’?

Dozens of times I have seen a familiar image in someone’s wallet. Not once an image of the Lord Jesus with an Open Heart.

 

Diary

And now, for the sake of illustration, some heresies recorded in the Diary just to prove that the Holy Office placed it on the Index of Forbidden Books for a reason and that the decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office of 19.XI.1958 claiming that: ‘The experiences of Sr Faustina of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy do not have a supernatural source’ was not unfounded. This can be stated even if we only have available revised versions of the ‘Diary’

Here are the quotations:

• Now I know that it is not for the graces or gifts that you love me, but because My will is dearer to you than life. That is why I am uniting myself with you so intimately as with no other creature. (707)
  
  Are we to believe the Lord Jesus united Himself more with Sr. Faustina than with the Blessed Virgin Mary? After all, she was also His creation. Was Our Lady less dear to the will of Her Son that He united Himself less with Her than with Sr Faustina?

   

•  I heard this voice in my soul:From today on, do not fear God’s judgment, for you will not be judged. (374)
  
  According to the Church’s teaching, no one, except the Blessed Virgin Mary, is free from God’s judgement. Is it possible for the Lord Jesus to nurture in Sister Faustina such a view of himself that leads to an increasing sense of exceptionalism and pride? Pride is the domain of Satan.
  
  
• And the Lord Jesus said to me, Don’t cry. You are that saint. (1650)

   

  These are the words spoken to Sr Faustina after her ‘grievances’ that the Order has no saint of its own. Would St Teresa of Jesus, or John of the Cross, the great mystics of the Church accept something like this as true?

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• He spoke these words to me: My daughter, if you wish, I will this instant create a new world, more beautiful than this one, and you will live there for the rest of your life. ( 587)

   

  How can any reasonable person imagine that the Lord Jesus promises to create a special, unique world for man when He has not even offered this to His Blessed Mother? This statement besides all if it were fulfilled meant taking Faustina out of this miserable world and thus thwarting the very plans of the supposed ‘Jesus’ in which Faustina played the greatest role. If she then said ‘I want’ it would mean that her will was more important than God’s will. Such ‘visions’ can only be believed by a mind convinced of its own uniqueness so subject to Satan’s flattery.
  

 

There are more such words intended to confirm Sr Faustina’s sense of exceptionalism:

• With no other soul do I unite myself as closely and in such a way as I do with you, and this because of the deep humility and ardent love which you have for Me.
• ‘He made me understand that I had faithfully fulfilled all God’s wishes and thus found bounty in His sight.’

Faustina is instructed by Mary that, like her, she has obtained a special grace! She also claims many times , that she is the object of God’s special glory and pleasure:

• The Lord let me know that the whole mystery depended on me… I felt that God was waiting for my word, for my consent.
  
• I see your love, so pure and true that I give you first place among the virgins.You are the honor and glory of My Passion (282)

   

• You have great and incomprehensible rights over My Heart, for you are a daughter of complete trust. (718)

   

• At that moment, the Lord gave me to know how jealous He is of my heart. (1541)

   

• Know, My daughter, that one glance of yours directed at someone else would wound Me more than many sins committed by another person. (588)

   

• Beloved pearl of My Heart, I see your love so pure, purer than that of the angels. (1061)

   

• For your sake I bless the world. (1061)

   

• My daughter, your heart is My heaven. (238)
  
• My daughter, My delight is to unite myself with you.  (954)
  

All these assurances led Faustina to a dangerous conviction of her own holiness during her lifetime , and to a feeling that she was in control of the world. Examples:

• It seems to me that the whole world serves me and depends on me.
• … a certain person suffered because of my sanctity (1571)

   

•  the Lord answered me (…)Of course you are a saint (1571)

   

• God gave me to know the greatness of my destiny (1510
  
• I felt that everything that existed was exclusively mine (1279)

   

• There are moments when Jesus gives me knowledge within my soul, and then everything that exists on earth is at my service: friends, enemies, success, adversity… all things, willing or not, must serve me. (1720)

 

No saint has been so singled out as Faustina. Nor is there a single saint in the Church so full of self-indulgence and conviction of their own uniqueness as that seen in Faustina. This goes against the very essence of holiness.

• Now I can be wholly useful to the Church by my personal sanctity (1364)

   

Anyone in their right mind would also surely see the Child running down the altar, as Faustina describes, as a phenomenon of dubious origin: 

A moment later, the Infant Jesus ran with joy to the center of the altar (677)

But if it is possible to believe that the Child sat on Faustina’s lap, then it is possible to believe in the hallucination of the triple popping of the Host from the tabernacle.

And the Host came out of the Tabernacle and rested in my hands, and I joyfully put it into the Tabernacle. And it happened a second time, and I did the same with it, but it happened a third time, but the Host was transformed into the living Lord Jesus, and Jesus said to me, ‘I will not stay here any longer,’ and in my soul the power of love towards Jesus was suddenly awakened, and I said – and I will not let you go, Jesus, from this house. And again Jesus disappeared, and the Host rested in my hands. Again I put it in the chalice and closed it in the Tabernacle.

A scene so absurd and suspicious that it should immediately cause concern; in addition, it induces ridicule. The Lord Jesus and some teasing, or childish ‘games’ on the hands of Sr Faustina? The Catholic Church has taught for centuries that only consecrated priestly hands can touch the Body of Christ, and this ‘vision’ looks like a harbinger of a new teaching in this area. Sister Faustina the forerunner of Communion into the hands! This is what it looks like and this one thing was already enough to dismiss these visions. And yet everything was ‘changed’ thanks to the modernists in the Church, so the ‘revelations’ were disseminated.

 

Two ‘saints’.

It is not without significance that Sr Faustina Kowalska was not the first nun to receive ‘visions’ of divine mercy. Few are aware that decades earlier the Catholic Church had excommunicated Felixa Kozlowska. She was the first woman condemned by the Church. As a result, her followers seceded from the Catholic Church and founded the Mariavite sect.

The Mariavites for whom the excommunicated Kozlowska is a saint considered the ‘revelations’ given to Sr. Faustina as a continuation of the ‘revelations’ given earlier to Kozlowska, and consider both women saints. Kozlowska’s records are, apart from the Scriptures, the main source of the Mariavite faith. The same can be said of post-conciliar Catholics. Faustina became the greatest authority, after John Paul II, who brought her ‘visions’ to light and led to her being declared a saint.

In 1893, in Plock, Felixa Kozlowska received a ‘revelation’ of the Work of Great Mercy and the command to organise the Congregation of Marianist Priests. God, according to Kozłowska, showing His mercy, indicated rescue for the sinful world in veneration of the Blessed Sacrament and invocation of the Perpetual Help of Mary. The congregation of Mariavites and Mariavite nuns was to be concerned with extending this veneration.

Analysing Kozłowska’s text, one can even get the impression as if individual sentences came directly from Sr Faustina’s Diary. It can be assumed that Faustina, while staying in Plock, heard about Kozłowska and the Mariavites who were based there, and even came into contact with the very text of the ‘messages’. 31 years later, also in Plock, history repeats itself. Faustina writes down her experiences in her Diary. The similarity of content is striking, so one can assume that she was inspired. If not to ‘create’ the visions themselves, then to the way she responded to them. She had some idea of how to describe everything. Faustina, he says, wanted to become a great saint: ‘My Jesus, You know that from an early age I wanted to become a great saint’ (Diary 1372). Her desire was put to good use. She quickly recognised that God could not live without her :

• I do not know how to live without God, but I also feel that God, absolutely self-sufficient though He is, cannot be happy without me… (1120)

And even gave her a share in the redemption of the world! :

•  I am giving you a share in the redemption of mankind. (310)

 

There is only one fundamental difference between the two nuns. Sr Faustina did not make the mistake of Kozlowska, condemned by the Church in 1906 when St Pius X issued the encyclical ‘Tribus circiter’ on Kozlowska’s heresy and the Mariavite sect. The second ‘approach’ to preaching the ‘work of mercy’ was more prudent. Quite unlike Kozlowska and her sect, which already in the 1920s began ordaining women as ‘priestesses’ and blessing marriages between priests and nuns, Sr Faustina seems , in a sense, more humble towards the Church. Kozlowska’s pride and certainty about her ‘vision’ doomed her ‘mission’ to failure. Even though it can hardly be called a failure since it led to schism in the Church.So that the cause did not die, choosing Sister Faustina as the preacher of false mercy was apparently a more effective move. It only took a little time for all Catholics to be instilled with false teachings.

Felixa Kozłowska, in her ‘Work of Great Mercy’, writes:

‘In the year 1893, on the 2nd of August, after hearing Mass and receiving Holy Communion, I was suddenly detached from my senses and placed before the majesty of God – An incomprehensible light enveloped my soul and I then had a vision of: the general corruption of the world and the end times, then the dissolution of manners in the clergy and the sins committed by priests. – I saw God’s justice aimed at punishing the world and mercy giving the perishing world, as a last rescue, the veneration of the Blessed Sacrament and the help of Mary. After a moment of silence, the Lord spoke: ‘As a means of spreading this veneration, I want a congregation of priests to be formed under the name of the Mariavites; their motto ’ All for the greater glory of God and the honour of the Most Holy Virgin Mary.’ They will remain under the protection of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, for as there are incessant efforts against God and the Church, so is the incessant help of Mary needed.’

 

Everything seems to be very praiseworthy and right, and even the reasons for the alleged divine visions are in line with reality. So the nuances and inaccuracies according to the modernists make no sense to worry about. This is the approach to various ‘messages’ today. It is easy to assume that they come from God. The example of Kozlowska shows how disastrous this is.

There are many similarities in Kozlowska’s ‘Work’ and Faustina’s ‘Diary’. Apart from the general pronunciation which is the same, there are also striking similarities in the statements intended to convince the ‘visionaries’ of their uniqueness.

Kozlowska allegedly quotes the words of Jesus:

After the Blessed Virgin no one has so fulfilled my will as you have fulfilled it’ (Works, p. 47)

‘Of all the graces I bestow on you, the greatest is this, that as the Blessed Virgin is taken out from under sin, so are you taken out from under the passions; by this path which I am leading you, hitherto have I led no soul, and seek your likeness in the Blessed Virgin.’

Sister Faustina similarly says in her Diary that since she became the Bride of Jesus no temptations tormented her.

‘After the Blessed Virgin no one has so fulfilled My will as you have fulfilled it’.

‘This is my marriage knot with you for ever’.

The similarities between the two nuns living at the same time are startling. One claimed to be a ‘mother of mercy’ the other a ‘secretary of mercy’. Both recognised that they enjoyed an extraordinary election by God. Felixa wrote that she was ‘providentially given for the salvation of a world about to perish’, Faustina heard: ‘You will prepare the world for My final coming’. Both felt extraordinarily enlightened by God and convinced of their uniqueness.

It can all be summed up in one sentence. Kozlowska recognised herself as ‘Christ’s spouse’ and Faustina felt herself to be ‘the bride’. Apparently, the alleged ‘Jesus’ tied this ‘marriage knot’ with both nuns and both were exceptional as the quotes testify, ‘pearls of the heart’, and united with both souls just as ‘intimately’. These are the conclusions that can be reached by summarising the two ‘apparitions’.

 

As if the absurdities were not enough, voices of priests and theologians suggesting the authenticity of Kozlowska’s revelations and Faustina as the continuator of the ‘Work of Mercy’ are becoming more frequent within the framework of ecumenism: ‘It was unfortunate, because the revelations of Sister Kozlowska could have been authentic, and the postulates of the Mariavites – the cult of the Blessed Sacrament, Divine Mercy, the imitation of Mary’s life – could indeed have served the reform of the clergy, which would have been very useful at the time.’ – said Dr Marek Kita of the Institute of Ecumenism and Dialogue at John Paul II University in Krakow (involved in the Chemin Neuf community).

Apparently irrelevant are all the ‘eccentricities’ proposed by Kozlowska. These include swallowing tiny pictures with the image of Mary, as a kind of ‘Marian sacrament’, or performing baptism ‘in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Mateczka’ . “Mateczka” is a diminutive of the word “mother” in Polish and refers to Felixy Kozłowska, who is so called by the Mariavites.

The doctor of theology believes that the ‘mateczka’ Kozlowska is not a heretic. And the Revd Dr Wojciech Różyk, a graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin, as part of his ‘intellectual adventure’, wrote a favourable book on the Mother of God so that the Church’s dialogue with the Old Catholic Mariavite Church would have a ‘strong point of reference’.

Modernists are closer to schismatics and their ‘saints’ than to the Tradition of the Church.

 

Conclusion.

Finally, one conclusion. Someone may reply that, after all, in the Diary, Sr Faustina writes about hell and the punishments for sins, there are many beautiful passages talking about love for the Lord God, and so on. But the question is different. What does it all change if the main message is not in line with the teaching of the Church? The effect is that people have come to believe that mercy is due to everyone, that it is available without effort on our part. All we have to do is believe in it and say ‘Jesus I trust in you’. Satan’s principle is to make a lie believable with the truth, even an overwhelming amount of truth. Surely even modernists would not promote the diary if there were no Catholic truths in it. Their domain is the mixing of truth with lies, insinuation and relativism.

Modernism offered a new cult. In opposition to the already existing devotion to the Heart of Jesus. This is particularly evident when one looks at the promises that the Lord Jesus gave to St Margaret Alacoque concerning devotees of His Heart:

 

1. I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.

2. I will establish peace in their homes.

3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions.

4. I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death.

5. I will bestow abundant blessings upon all their undertakings.

6. Sinners will find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.

7. Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.

8. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.

9. I will bless every place in which an image of my Heart is exposed and honored.

10. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.

11. Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in my Heart.

12. I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.

 

In this service, our effort, First Fridays, penance and reparation apply, but the graces are immeasurable. In return, what have we received from the modernists? The conjuring up of reality with the phrase ‘Jesus I trust in you’.

Do we realise how much harm has been done to those who believed that this was enough? That mercy is due to us?… A harm that costs, perhaps eternal damnation, if they live and die without repentance for their sins and confession… God wants to save us, but He will not do it without us.

The ‘Spark from Poland’ has spread around the world – images of the ‘Merciful Jesus’ in the same ‘Catholics’ who have expelled the Sacrament of Penance from their lives. There are no confessionals in churches around the world, but the image of ‘Jesus I trust in you’-almost a pop culture icon-is in almost every church. It has replaced images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and with them has gone His worship.

 

Do not say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?”
    for the Lord is slow to anger.
Do not be so confident of atonement
    that you add sin to sin.
 Do not say, “His mercy is great,
    he will forgive^[a] the multitude of my sins,”
for both mercy and wrath are with him,
    and his anger rests on sinners.
Do not delay to turn to the Lord,
    nor postpone it from day to day;
for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will go forth,
    and at the time of punishment you will perish.
(Sirach 5:4-7)

“JEZUS” BEZ SERCA – O “wizjach” s. Faustyny i fałszywym miłosierdziu

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Agnieszka Szaroleta