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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. Palestine is what we call a mystic. There have been

several saints throughout history who are mystics. In fact, just last week on the feast date of

St. Catherine of Siena, we talked about how she also was a 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

incredible things. These saints were so devoted to Jesus that he was able to come and appear to them

in a vision. So that is what a mystic is. Now perhaps an even bigger question is, why are

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