Life Novena Day Two

Life Novena Day Two

Prayer: O God, who has brought about a time of great mercy for the Church and the world, through the intercession of St. Faustina, grant pardon to those who sin against the dignity of life.

St. Faustina,

Pray for us

3 Our Father

3 Hail Mary

3 Glory Be

Today’s saint that we are asking the intercession of is St. Faustina. Faustina was born on August 25, 1905 in Glogowiec, Poland, of a poor and religious family of peasants, the third out of ten children. She was baptized with the name Helena, and began at the age of seven to feel stirrings of a religious vocation. Helena made her first communion at the age of nine and attended school for three years. After finishing school, she wanted to enter a convent, but was not given permission by her parents. Helena felt a strong calling to go to a church one night and she did and there she heard God tell her to leave and fulfill her vocation. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy on August 1, 1925 and took the name Sr. Maria Faustina Kowlaska of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The Lord Jesus chose Sr. Faustina as the Apostle and “secretary” of His Mercy, so she could tell the world about His great message, which Faustina wrote in a a diary she titled Divine Mercy in My Soul. Sister Maria Faustina, consumed by tuberculosis and by innumerable sufferings which she accepted as a sacrifice for sinners, died in Krakow Poland at the age of 33 on October 5, 1938. On April 18, 1993 St. John Paul II raised Faustina “to the glory of the altars”. She was canonized on April 30, 2000.