Please
observe the gaze of Christ, it is not a normal gaze, nor divine but
preternatural.
Note. "Very dear, I conjure you before God and Jesus Christ ... Proclaim the word, insist on time and misfortune; rebuke, pray, exhort, with patience always and an eagerness to teach. Because the time will come when they will not support sound doctrine ... Teachers will be chosen in bulk and divert and divert their ears from the TRUTH ”(Saint Paul to Tim. 2,) It is the duty of the good shepherd to direct the sheep entrusted to him not only to teach the truth but also to point out the errors wherever they are, above all And above all, just as we did with Luisa Picarreta, now we do it with Sister Faustina for opposing a very dear devotion to us, which is the SACRED HEART OF JESUS.
First,
we must recognize that many people have undoubtedly received, in spite of the
devotion itself, thanks to the prayer of the Divine Mercy devotion propagated
by Sister Faustina.
It
must also be said that a soul of assiduous prayer is appreciated in her.
However, these two facts do not necessarily imply that this devotion comes from
God. Here it is not our intention to judge your intentions, your good or bad
faith, which is the domain of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our only intention is to
do what the Church has said in times past on this subject for the good of
souls.
We
Catholics know with certainty, thanks to the promise that Jesus Christ himself
made us, that the Holy Spirit would be the guide of the Catholic Church until
the end of the world.
Precisely
for this reason every time the Church pronounces on a point of faith or morals,
she always relies on His infallible assistance. Thanks to this, the Popes,
Vicars of Christ, are obliged to faithfully transmit the divine deposit
entrusted to them and cannot get out of it under penalty of going against the
Holy Spirit. A future Pope could not then go against the infallible decrees of
the Church in matters of faith and morals that have been defined and
transmitted through his Magisterium through the centuries. If a Pope did that,
he would be speaking in his own name and would undoubtedly be teaching human
doctrines against the Holy Spirit himself and in that case all Catholics would
be under the obligation to disobey that Pope. The truth is immutable, it does
not change and cannot change. Modernists deny this, relativize everything, and
pretend to put themselves in the place of God. In the present case, without
paying attention to his predecessors, John Paul II introduced this devotion
already prohibited by the Church and this is unheard of.
First,
it must be remembered that The Devotion of Divine Mercy was already
definitively prohibited by the Catholic Church. Sister Faustina Kowalska's
Diary placed the Church on the banned books index. That was the decision of
Pope Pius XII. These decisions are part of the infallible Magisterium of the
Catholic Church.
The
Holy Father considered Sister Faustina's work represented a very great danger
against the Catholic Faith because of the “apparitions” and messages that she
received.
Supported
by this, by order of the Holy Father, The Holy Office, meeting in plenary
session on November 19, 1958, declared the following:
1.-
The supernatural aspect of the revelations made to Sister Faustina are not
evident. (They are private revelations
that absolutely cannot influence or change the fidei deposit, since something
that goes against it must be condemned)
2.-
No feast of Divine Mercy should be established under penalty of incurring
excommunication.
3.-
Therefore, it is forbidden to disclose the images and writings that propagate
this devotion according to the way it was received by Sister Faustina.
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Totally contrary to this decision of the Church are the words of
"Jesus" in the Diary: "I promise that the soul
that venerates this image will not perish" (No. 48, Diary).
A
second decree of the Holy Office made on March 6, 1959 ratified the above, also
asking the bishops of the world to act in that direction. This office (the
secretary of state) was under the direct control of the Pope, and was
responsible for maintaining the purity of Catholic Doctrine by protecting it
from false or dangerous doctrines.
The
reason for this prohibition is because Sister Faustina's diary places a lot of emphasis on the
Mercy of God while minimizing the reality of Divine Justice. The Church
had never allowed divine mercy to be worshiped without explicitly alluding to
its justice and to the detriment of it. In God his Mercy cannot be separated
from his Justice. (Let's be clear on
this, divine mercy is the act proper to the virtue of charity, it is not by any
means a virtue. Instead, divine justice is an essential virtue in God, that is,
it is something essential to his divine being par excellence.) Our sins and
the seriousness of the offense made, as well as the damage caused by them with
its consequences, cannot be ignored when seeking God's mercy. There must be
humility, repentance, a desire to make reparation, and a purpose for amendment
every time one approaches God asking for forgiveness of our sins while at the
same time appealing to his infinite goodness.
These
conditions that represent the fear of God are indispensable conditions to
obtain the mercy of God (the Blessed Virgin clearly says this in her canticle
of the Magnificat). These conditions are completely ignored in the devotion
proposed by Sister Faustina. This repentance, reparation, and penance is
precisely what the Blessed Virgin Mary insisted on so much in her great
apparitions at La Salette, Lourdes and Fátima as an INDISPENSABLE condition to
be able to obtain God's mercy and forgiveness.
The traditional image of God's mercy
coupled with his justice was always the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There his Most Sacred Heart, pierced with a spear, crowned with thorns,
and shedding his Most Precious Blood, always shows us, first, that we must
abandon sin, that we have to repent, and make reparation. The image of the
Sacred Heart reminds us through the pains of his Passion of the gravity of sin
and the price he had to pay on the Cross to be able to forgive us; there his
Sacred Wounds explicitly ask us to NO longer offend him. These dispositions are
what make us receive the infinite Love of God and his forgiveness. We must
never separate in Jesus Christ himself from his Passion or from his Cross.
Mercy comes from the Cross and from our participation in it. Mercy cannot be
seen separated from the Cross, from Justice, from the price of our redemption.
Now
we are going to address several particular errors found in Sister Faustina's
diary to convince ourselves of how dangerous this doctrine is:
1.-
In Sister Faustina's diary many allusions are made to the fact that in the
PRESENT time is a time of mercy and that it IS ENOUGH to trust her mercy to be
saved. It says that the time of Justice will be until the end or until after
death.
These
teachings are false and very dangerous. At the present time there is mercy, but
it is CONDITIONED to our sincere repentance; if there is no repentance then
there will ONLY be justice. Mercy is for the present and for eternity. Justice
is also justice for the present and for eternity. It is up to us who is going
to touch us. IT IS NOT ENOUGH just to trust in mercy to save yourself. This
false "confidence" that in fact should be called
"presumption" (sin against hope), is what sums up what this devotion
that Sister Faustina preaches truly is. "Jesus, I trust you!" It is
the title that characterizes the image of Divine Mercy. This is the typical
presumptuous Protestant teaching that does NOT demand of the sinner neither
repentance nor amendment. For the Protestant "it is enough to have faith,
trust in Jesus" to be saved. Trust without regret is NOT enough to save
us.
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On page 101, it says: “Humanity will not find peace until it confidently turns
to my mercy” (No. 300, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 187, it says “The soul that trusts in my mercy will not perish” (No.
723, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 101, it says: “Humanity will not find peace until it confidently turns
to my mercy” (No. 300, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 187, it says “The soul that trusts in my mercy will not perish” (No.
723, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 118, it says: “The moment I knelt to cross out my own will, as the Lord
had commanded me, I heard this voice in my soul: “From today do not be afraid
of God's judgment, since you will be judged. " (No. 374, Diary of Sister
Faustina, February 4, 1935)
2.-
The strange promise made to Sister Faustina to be freed from all the temporary
punishment due to sin, for those who pray the Chaplet at 3:00 pm, is a sample
of that false mercy. It is the superstition and the presumption of obtaining
forgiveness, even if one has sinned, and even if there is no repentance, even
if there is no reparation. The Church in its tradition only grants this
privilege, through plenary indulgence, to those who have NO ATTACHMENT even to
venial sin, that is, to those who are repentant and amended. This is another
infallible and constant teaching that our Mother the Church has taught us for
20 centuries.
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"Even the most inveterate sinner, if he prays the Chaplet of Divine Mercy
only once, he will receive the graces of My infinite mercy" (No. 687,
Diary of Sister Faustina).
3.-In
her diary, Sister Faustina lacks that deep humility, that sense of
unworthiness, that sense of the gravity of sin and her confession and
continuous pain are missing; dispositions of the great mystics and seers of
God. Jesus Christ his children who loves punishes and humiliates them so that
they bear more fruit in virtue and holiness. That "Jesus" of which Sister
Faustina speaks rather resembles the tempter of the desert. She writes the
following in her journal:
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On page 185 “Jesus” said: “Now I know that you do not love me because of the
graces or because of the gifts, but because My will is dearer to you than life.
That is why I unite myself with you as closely as with any other creature” (No.
707, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 355 it says: “my soul was invaded by a great desire that there would
also be a saint in our house and I burst into tears like a little girl. And the
Lord Jesus told me: Don't cry, you are” (No. 1650, Diary of Sister Faustina).
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On page 259 we read that "Jesus" said to Faustina: "Tell the
Superior General to count on you as the most faithful daughter of the
Order." (No. 1130 Diary of Sister Faustina).
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Sister Faustina prays like this: “Oh Jesus, I know perfectly well that I can be
a missionary priest and preacher, I can die in martyrdom” (No. 302, Diary of
Sister Faustina).
4.-
It is not surprising that John Paul II promoted this devotion when we know that
he also teaches, in his encyclical "Dives in Misericordia", this
concept of false mercy. In his theology of the "Paschal Mystery" he
himself sets aside any consideration about the gravity of sin and the need to
do penance as satisfaction to Divine JUSTICE. Denies that the Holy Mass is a
sacrifice
expiatory
and overlooks the need to earn indulgences to mitigate divine punishment. For
him, since God is "infinitely" merciful, our sins do not matter and
we do not have to worry about their consequences. This is NOT a Catholic
spirit. Each and every one, on the contrary, is obliged "to make reparation
for our sins and for those of the whole world", as the Sacred Heart of
Jesus himself taught Saint Margarita María de Alacoque. This is part of the
great mystery of the Cross with which we must associate to help Christ Our Lord
to save souls.
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“Mercy itself, as the perfection of infinite God, is also infinite. Infinite,
therefore, inexhaustible is the readiness of the Father in welcoming the
prodigal children who return home. The promptness and strength of forgiveness are
infinite. Dives in Misericordia No. 13).
NOTE:
This promptness of God is infinite but CONDITIONAL. In practice, due to our
imperfect dispositions, the application of God's mercy to each individual
person will only be conditional and finite. It is important to note here that
the attributes of God that flow from his Divine Essence are always infinite,
such as Goodness, Power, Love, etc. Human beings are not infinite in creation,
that is why one cannot speak of an infinite Creation. It is the same with mercy.
Mercy, as its name implies, means God's compassion for the miserable,
compassion for the one who recognizes himself as miserable by having a humble
and repentant spirit, as in the parables of the Gospel of the publican or of
the prodigal son; there they showed repentance before receiving mercy. That is
why God exercises mercy and compassion towards us only in proportion to our
dispositions, to our humility, to our faith, to our repentance. That is why our
Lord says:
"Blessed are the merciful for
they will obtain mercy" (Matthew 5,7).
Our
Lord is here conditioning his mercy. Mercy is never exercised by God without
relation to us. Mercy would then be as gigantic as possible in proportion to
our humility and repentance. For this reason, we will not find in the Sacred
Scriptures ANY mention or use of the term "infinite mercy" of God
towards men. However, it is used continuously by both John Paul II and Sister
Faustina, and the new Evangelization since the Second Vatican Council as well.
The Catholic tradition of mercy generally describes it with the term
"ETERNAL
mercy”,
that is, that“the mercy of God extends from generation to generation to those
who fear him ”(Magnificat of the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary, Luke 1,46-55).
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On page 181 it says: “I heard these words: You will give the testimony of My
infinite mercy”. (No. 689 diary of Sister Faustina).
5.- We also see with great pain
that the Chaplet of Divine Mercy has been used as a substitute for the Holy
Rosary. Would God reveal a new devotion that is said in the Rosary beads
shortly after His Mother appeared in many places for 8 centuries, and lately in
Fatima, until performing a powerful miracle to reveal, among other things, the
need for the Rosary beads? The specific instruction given to Sister Faustina on
how to perform the Divine Mercy Devotion is that it should be recited using the
same Rosary beads. This has actually caused many people to substitute the
recitation of the Holy Rosary for that of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. In fact,
"Jesus" in Sister Faustina's diary grants the Chaplet THE SAME
PROMISES of salvation (and even more!) That the Holy Rosary enjoys. That is not
like that! In fact, the Holy Rosary is irreplaceable since it was expressly
requested by God and the Church for 8 centuries without interruption.
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On page 139 it says “This prayer is to appease My anger, you will pray it for
nine days with a common rosary” (No. 476).
6.-
Another very serious problem, which in fact is an “invitation” to commit
sacrilege, is the promotion of the practice of communion in the hand, which is
supposedly promoted by Our Lord in the daily. The Host is transported to Sister
Faustina's hands several times; Our Lord supposedly says that he wants to rest
in his hands.
This
was in fact a "divine" foundation used by John Paul II himself to
approve Communion in hand in modern liturgies. When we know with certainty from
Tradition that not even the Blessed Virgin was ever allowed to touch the Sacred
Host. (Only the priest, Christ, through the consecrated priestly hands, is Who
gives Himself as food to his children. Giving communion is a priestly ministry
that no lay person can assume. Perhaps there was an exception in the great
Roman persecutions. where lay people raised to communion wrapped in a linen
cloth to those who would be martyred the next day or on the same day. It was
also practiced in the Cristero war in Mexico in 1925 outside of there I do not
remember another time)
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On page 29 of Sister Faustina's Diary, it says: “… and the Host came out of the
tabernacle and rested in my hands, and I joyfully placed it in the tabernacle.
That was repeated again, and I did the same with Her, however, that was
repeated the third time ..."
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On page 68 of the Diary, Faustina says: “When the priest approached again, I gave him the Host
to put in the chalice, from the Host I heard these words:" I wanted to
rest in your hands, not only in your heart". (No. 60).
7.-The
Devotion of Divine Mercy has caused the Church to focus on mercy at a time when
humanity is about to overflow the cup of divine justice. The problem today is that
man does not fear God and is offending him in the most serious way that has
ever existed. What we need to hear today is about your DIVINE JUSTICE. This is
what the Blessed Virgin of Fatima did, warning of hell and divine punishments
on countries and the Church if people "DO NOT CONVERT" (which has not
happened). He said that the devotion to her Immaculate Heart and the recitation
of the Holy Rosary were "the LAST means that God gave to the world so that
it could be converted and saved." Asked Sister Lucia about what the words
"the last remedies" meant, she replied: "He said 'last' since
THERE WOULD BE NO OTHERS" (that is, The Crown! ").
Divine
Mercy devotion was false devotion and the perfect message to make people
believe that they would obtain God's mercy even if they continued in their
sins. Faustina insists that her mercy must be "adored" ("my
destiny is to adore and glorify Divine Mercy" (No. 729, Diary of Sister
Faustina).
CONCLUSION
Considering
all these things together, and supported in obedience to the infallible
Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and to the dire consequences of this false doctrine, false piety and
ultimately false means of salvation, we conclude, inescapably, that Sister
Faustina's Diary together with His devotion to Divine Mercy, which is included
there, is something forbidden and that Catholics should avoid.
“He
who has ears to hear, let him listen. ¨ (Mt 13,9)
With
our blessing.
REV.
FATHER RAFAEL OSB
REV.
FATHER Arturo Vargas Meza
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