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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast,

we are talking about the incredible prayer, image, feast day of the divine mercy.

Yesterday we spent time understanding what mercy is and how mercy is love, love when it

encounters suffering, sin, and pain. And therefore, since we are humans and prone to suffering

in sin, any love that God sends is an act of mercy. And Jesus dying on the cross is the most profound

act of mercy there could ever be. Now, today we are going to talk about the nun who gave us

or who delivered to us the divine mercy. Saint Faustina was a simple Polish nun. On the surface, she didn't seem to be

anything very remarkable. She was from a poor family. She wasn't very well educated, and she wasn't

even that incredibly esteemed by her fellow nuns in the convent. And yet, over the course of several years,

she received messages, visions of Jesus Christ, and Mary. Now, she wrote a very large diary

that details all of the things that Jesus said to her and that Mary said to her.

And there are so many beautiful and incredibly loving words that Jesus had for Faustina

that he wanted her to deliver to all of us.

It is an incredible thing to read.

And he also instructed her in detail on the divine mercy devotion. The prayer we should be

saying, an image he wanted painted of himself and the feast day, the divine mercy. Now,

we're going to be covering all of those things later on in this week.

But today, I want to talk about St. Faustina just a little bit.

Now, St. Faustina is what we call a mystic.

There have been several saints throughout history who are mystics. In fact, just last week on the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, we talked about

how she also was a mystic. She had visions of Jesus. She had a mystical wedding with Jesus, all sorts of

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