27 tioned disciples of Christ, we also have contemporary heralds of the Divine Mercy – a multitude of people opening their hearts, including conscious, ordinary, humble witnesses of God’s merciful love like those who for decades grew in its mists and sought God virtually in the dark; many times finding Him in neighbours, sometimes in themselves. Ironically as it may sound, that is how God took care of His followers accompanying them in their suffering in Aleppo, Chechnya, once in Rwanda, in today’s Ukraine and many other dark places around the world. These dramatic places and times are a lectio divina, in which God reveals His name – Mercy. He does not get tired of us and our sin. It is He who seeks us, never condemning us. His wounds are the proof of love towards us sinners – it is the hour of Jesus’ death, the time to stop to call: “Jesus, I trust in You, … For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!”. Since the time of St. Faustina, humanity has been consciously wandering the paths of mercy. As Marians, we have our little share in it. We know that Fr. Józef Jarzębowski travelled around the globe with the Diary of Sister Faustina to ultimately share this spiritual work with the world. The spiritual experience of Saint Faustina is her personal story about God’s Mercy read by our life. In the dramatic events around and inside us, we are trying to read the book of Divine Mercy to imperceptibly find ourselves in the centre of the world. Because where the Merciful God is, and we are together with Him, there is always the centre of the world, the place of spiritual formation where God throws us off our comfortable selfishness and teaches us to love like He does. Thus, we notice that the essence of the Gospel is the good news about the inconceivable Mercy of God. Mercy is the most important attribute of God – it is the pure Gospel. If so, there is nothing left to do but to accept the challenge of the testimony of faith that God is greater than spiritual numbness, more powerful than the noonday demon. He grants us His grace so that we are able to actively recognize the times and places of His visitations and join in through active love. Active love is a prophetic sign, it is the rooting of a good deed in the merciful love of God. This rooting reaches back to a baptismal consecration which, in fact, is the beginning of the only formation known to the Church: to be called to christiformitas – shaping oneself in the image of Christ – living the life that He was living. This is our path – witnessing to the life of the new man formed by the Spirit of Jesus who is the Servant of Yahweh and the Lamb giving up His life; killed and yet alive. This is our charism and mission at the same time, it is radical, we enter into all that is the Church, including those dramatic situations described above in which
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