Pillars of Fire In My Soul

tation. In this manner, the supreme act of adoration rendered to God, out of psychological necessity, also entails the dependent veneration of God’s images. Perceived in such a manner, the acts of religious veneration do not contradict the supreme act of adoration due only to God, but directly contribute to its increase. The place of devotion to The Divine Mercy within the scope of honor and adoration or religious worship due to God alone is defined by revealed teaching about the nature of God, One-in-the Holy Trinity. For in the light of revealed teaching, God is utterly simple, uncomplicated, absolutely having no parts. In other words, all that is within God, in His substance, is God. Thus, God is not only wise, He is Wisdom; He is not only omnipotent, He is Omnipotence. With regard to the world, He not only manifests His Providence, but He is Providence. Not only does He love us, but He is Love and not only is He mer- ciful, but He is Mercy. Therefore, Wisdom, Providence, Omnipotence, Love and Mercy, which are the same as God, are entitled to religious adoration on our part. For this reason, there are many churches in the Christian world dedicated to St. Sophia (HolyWisdom). Even in Poland there are churches ded- icate to the Divine Providence, and in Cracow itself, there is a little Church of Divine Mercy on Smolensk Street, which in its present form dates from the year 1620. The liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church and of the separated churches honors the great works of supernatural Divine Providence: the Incarnation of the Son of God, His Nativity, His Epiphany to the nations, His Baptism, His sorrowful Passion and Death, His Resurrection, and finally the Sending of the Holy Spirit. For these were divine-human activities; and because they were divine, on our part, the supreme act of adoration is due to them. Basically, therefore, on the part of Catholic teaching, there can be no obstacle to the worship of Divine Mercy. There remains to be solved only the question whether the form of devotion to the Divine Mercy which we find in the Diary of 94 Pillars of Fire in My Soul