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John Paul II and Divine Mercy

Jean Paul Posted by Picasa He will go down in history, Pope of Mercy. In almost 27 years of his pontificate, the Pope was an apostle of mercy in many ways, for his education through the documents he has written (including Dives in Misericordia) and through his actions. We remember her listening skills, his intense gaze and caresses to all those who showed distress. He traveled the world as a pilgrim, proclaiming that nothing is more essential to man as God's mercy, that is to say that love and caring forgiving revalues. He brought the Church into the third millennium. In canonizing Sister Mary Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament in April 2000 and dedicated a shrine to divine mercy in August 2002, he stated that "mercy is the only hope for the world." He entrusted the fate of the world to divine mercy and did so with the fervent desire that this message of God's merciful love reaches all inhabitants of the earth and fills their hearts with hope. This is not because the Pope was Polish that St. Faustina was important, but because the message of Jesus was in Poland, he almost that the Pope was Polish. Jesus himself said to our religious "I especially like Poland. From it gush the spark that will prepare the world for my final coming." In turn, we are invited to receive and put into practice the message of Divine Mercy to Saint Faustina ...