Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

'My name is sacrifice”: The Mission of Blessed Faustina 115 59 As quoted in the outstanding, brief summary of Bl. Faustina’s mysti­ cism by Ludmila Grygiel, “Mistyka Bozego Milosierdzia,” in the Jesuit publication, Zycie Duchowe, Crakow, 5 (3) (1996), p. 68. 60 Menke, Stellvertretung, p. 301. 61 Hoffman, Siihne, p. 60. 62 Ibid. , p. 61. 63 Ibid., p. 82. 64 Ibid., p. 93. 65 Ibid., p. 90. 66 Ibid., p. 91. 67 Ibid., p. 120. 68 Michalenko, Mercy My Mission, p. 23. 69 Michalenko, Mercy My Mission, p. 173. 70 Andrasz, Divine Mercy, p. 17. 71 Tarnawska, Sister Faustina, p. 140. 72 Sr. M. Elbieta Siepak, Blessed Sister Faustina Kowalska 1905-1938, trans. Rev. Seraphim Michalenko and Maciej Talar (Rembertow: Congregation of Our Lady of Loreto, 1992), p. 43. 73 Bialas, The Mysticism o f the Passion, p. 190. 74 Michalenko, Mercy My Mission, p. 43. 75 Ibid. 76 I am indebted to Marquette graduate student Megan Maloney for the insight that the act of consecration in Faustina’s Chaplet of The Divine Mercy is itself a profound participation for the laity in the priesthood of all believers: uniting themselves and the sufferings of their lives with the priestly sacrifice of Christ in the liturgical action of the Mass. 77 Siepak, Blessed Sister Faustina, p. 51. 78 Ibid. 79 Ibid. p. 52. 80 As cited by Andrasz, Divine Mercy, p. 31. 81 Balthasar, “Crucifixus etiam pro nobis,” p. 31. 82 Andrasz, Divine Mercy, p. 20. 83 Hoffman, Siihne, p. 114. 84 Tarnawska, Sister Faustina, p. 216. 85 Ibid., p. 325. Bl. Faustina’s mystical espousal occurred on Good Friday 1937, “and was the crowning point of the Passion she had been experi­ encing with Jesus throughout the whole of Holy Week.”