Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

Mary: Mediatrix of Mercy 177 great joy when you adore the Holy Trinity for the graces and privileges which were accorded M e.” ’And further: “I went into the chapel to break the wafer, in spirit, with my loved ones, and I asked the Mother of God for graces for them” (Notebook I, no. 182, p. 101). Lastly, Blessed Faustina entrusts her very life to Our Lady as we read in Notebook I, no. 79, p. 41: O Mary, my Mother and my Lady, I offer You my soul, my body, my life and my death, and all that will follow it. I place everything in Your hands. O my Mother, cover my soul with Your virginal mantle and grant me the grace o f purity o f heart, soul and body. Defend me with Your power against all enemies, and espe­ cially against those who hide their malice behind the mask of virtue. O lovely lily! You are for me a mirror, O my Mother! A further dynamic complementarity between the Triumph o f Divine Mercy and Triumph o f the Immaculate Heart o f Mary is the undeniable urgency o f both heavenly calls. It would be a grave error to “demythol- ogize” the historical reality and transmission o f urgency contained in both these supernatural movements. Without question, then, the Diary gives vivid and consistent universal testimony to the mission o f the Mediatrix of Mercy. Both messages manifest an authentic celestial and historical urgency, an urgency o f peace and an urgency o f mercy, but nonetheless urgency. The following is the fundamental message from Our Lady o f the Rosary at Fatima, with one prophetic promise that “in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph”: Continue to say the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end o f the war; for she alone can save it.... Sacrifice yourselves for sinners; and say often, especially when you make some sacrifice: ‘My Jesus, it is for love o f You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart o f Mary.’ You have seen Hell - where the souls o f poor sinners go. To save them God wants to establish throughout the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people will do what I will tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will break out in the reign o f Pius XI. When you see a night illu­ mined by an unknown light, know that is the great sign that God