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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, October 5th, 2018. It is also the feast day of St. Faustina.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about trust. We learned how to trust from St. Faustina. We were reminded that God knows us and is always with us

through our guardian angels. We talked about Eve in the garden and how her mistrust of God led to

the first sin. We also looked at the example of St. Francis of Assisi and were reminded that

we need to trust God, even when it seems crazy and especially when we can't see the whole plan.

Today, with the help of St. Faustina, we are going to learn that it is super important that we trust that God will

have mercy on us and forgive us when we sin. Now, first of all, let's talk a little bit about

St. Faustina. St. Faustina was a Polish nun who lived less than 100

years ago. She was poor, but she was a mystic. A mystic is someone that has visions of Jesus or

Mary. She had many visions of Jesus, and she wrote down all of the things that she

learned in her visions in her diary. From St. Faustina, we have both the prayer and the image of the

divine mercy. Have you ever seen the image of the divine mercy?

Maybe you have.

The images of Jesus.

He is calling us forward with one hand and touching his heart with the other hand.

And from his heart, light rays are shooting forth.

Half of those light rays are blue and the other half

are red. Now what does this mean? Jesus, the blue is the water that gushed forth from the side of Christ,

and the red is the blood that gushed forth. The message that St. Faustina received from Jesus and tries very

hard to remind us of is that Jesus is the fountain of mercy, that Jesus is waiting and desiring

to forgive us for all of our sins. the only thing we need to do to achieve that forgiveness

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