The Healing Journey

April 12, 2026

“I pour out a whole ocean of graces…”
— Jesus to St. Faustina

During the 20th century, when ideologies like Nazism and Communism were drawing people away from God, Jesus gave a simple Polish nun messages of his infinite love and mercy.

St. Faustina Kowalska began recording them in her diary, “Divine Mercy in My Soul,” in 1934. Here are some words of Jesus to her:

1. On one occasion, Jesus gave me to know that when I pray for intentions which people are wont to entrust to me, He is always ready to grant His graces, but souls do not always want to accept them: “My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners … it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from my Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy (Diary, 367).”
2. [Jesus said,] “Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion (Diary, 1146).”
3. [Jesus said,] “I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: “Jesus, I trust in You” (Diary, 327).“
4. [Jesus said,] “The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is — trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive (Diary, 1578).”
5. When I went for adoration, I heard these words: … “Tell [all people], My daughter, that I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls (Diary, 1074).”

He also gave St. Faustina a Novena and Chaplet of Divine Mercy, promising, “Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death…. Even if they were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy.”

For more information, visit (https://www.shrineofdivinemercy.org) the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass.

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