82 moment when I fell in love with God, when He pulled me towards Himself, when I was discovering my Marian vocation? It is worth going back to those moments to let yourself be surprised also in the future by the Divine Mercy. We not only need this history lesson and to learn from it (history tends to repeat itself?). In the biblical context, we can see, for example, that it is not a coincidence that the two books of Chronicles, which originally were one book, in the Hebrew text are called Dibre Hajjamim, or the events of the days. What events and what days? Is it only about Solomon’s ascending the throne of the united kingdom or maybe it is also about the times when a snigger of the devil, trying to call the right to kill the right to live, seems to be heard in many streets of modern Europe and the world? Or the times when an informative bulimia is accompanied by an anorexia of dreams and a thief caught red-handed screams that it is not his hand? The example of The Book of Chronicles reveals that the author, probably the Prophet Ezra, shows God’s anger towards the unfaithful people but, on the other hand, at the same time, strongly emphasizes His Mercy. Thus, already in the Old Testament, the history of human unfaithfulness is an invitation to hope and praising God because He shows Mercy and gives another chance. Having experienced mercy, I can confidently make a more genuine attempt, not only in ministry, to praise the mutilated world. Conclusion. If the then Jews struggling with hardships relied on God in the first place, the lineage of David would again ascend Zion and the Kingdom of God would spread throughout the world. If we, struggling today with the burden of war, the pandemic, loneliness, or mental confusion among mutually contradictory opinions, show obedience to the Word of the Lord, then on the Good Friday of our life, we will not defect from the cross but, remaining with faith at the cross, we will experience resurrection! It is this paschal mystery that is “the culmination of the revelation and actual mercy, which is able to justify man” – wrote John Paul II in his encyclical on the Divine Mercy in 1980. Why? Because if God promises something, He keeps His Word. That is why the Word of God, which holds a creative power, gets fulfilled and we may live without fear and not confide ourselves to – as our Father Founder said – “apprehend the mere presence of God; we must also show in our actions and exterior deeds that we truly bear within us the living and unsullied image of God”3. 3 St. Stanisław Papczyński, The Mystical Temple of God, in: St. Stanislaus Papczynski, Selected Writings of Saint Stanislaus Papczyński, PROMIC, Warsaw, Poland, Marian Heritage, Stockbridge, MA, USA, 2022, p. 580
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