Blessed Fr. Sopocko

Mar
22
2017
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The Benefits Obtained from the Virtue of Mercy

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko was first published in the January-March 1963 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

"Blessed is he who takes thought for the poor and destitute" (Ps 40:2)

There is no virtue to which Holy Scripture assures a greater reward than to those who practice the virtue of mercy. If God rewards all virtues, then He rewards doubly the virtue of mercy with both temporal and eternal goods.

Mar
15
2017
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God's Mercy in the Mystery of the Incarnation

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko was first published in the October-December, 1962 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us."

In his first five words, the evangelist expresses the greatest mystery of the Incarnation, which was the beginning and foundation of all the other works of the Divine Mercy in the Incarnation. Let us ponder the infinite bounty of this act.

Mar
08
2017
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The Obligation of Mercy Towards Our Neighbor

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko was first published in the July-Sept. 1962 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

"Let us practice generosity to all while the opportunity is ours; and above all, to those who are of one family with us in the faith" (Gal 6:10)

Mar
02
2017
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The Love of Christ for Sinners

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko was first published in the April-June, 1960 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

"The Son of Man is come to see and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10).

Feb
22
2017
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The 'Picture' of the Merciful Christ

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko was first published in the Spring 1958 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

Feb
16
2017
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The Priest Who First Believed Faustina

By Anonymous (not verified)
He was an energetic, intensely spiritual priest who was happy in his pastoral duties. But Blessed Fr. Michael Sopocko - whose feast day is Feb. 15 - could never have imagined how in 1933, when he was appointed to be confessor to the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Vilnius, in present-day Lithuania, his life would change.

Feb
15
2017
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Peace and the Mercy of God

By Anonymous (not verified)
The following article by Blessed Michael Sopocko - whose feast day we celebrate Feb. 15 - was first published in the Spring 1956 issue of the Marian Helpers Bulletin. Blessed Michael was the confessor and spiritual director of St. Faustina.

Feb
13
2014
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Father Sopocko and Another Famous Confessor

By Anonymous (not verified)
We celebrate the feast day of Blessed Michael Sopoko on Feb. 15, which makes for a perfect opportunity to discuss one of the more curious details in the life of St. Faustina Kowalska, known today as the Lord's "secretary" of Divine Mercy.

So what's so curious?

Amazing parallels can be drawn between St. Faustina's confessor, Blessed Sopoko, and the confessor of another saint - and "secretary" - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, who received the revelations of the Sacred Heart in the 1670s.

Nov
06
2013
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'A Priest After My Own Heart '

By Anonymous (not verified)
In light of the beatification of Blessed Michael Sopocko (1888-1975) on Sept. 28, 2008, Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC, who served as the vice-postulator in North America for St. Faustina's canonization cause, points out one of the many interesting passages from the Diary of St. Faustina that mentions her confessor, Fr. Sopocko.

This passage, he says, "is like a canonization by Jesus Himself" of Fr. Sopocko.

On Aug. 30, 1937, St. Faustina writes in her Diary:

Nov
04
2013
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Imagine If You Were Fr. Sopocko

By Anonymous (not verified)

In order to understand the life of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska and the remarkable spread of her devotion to The Divine Mercy throughout the world, it helps to begin by learning the story of someone else first: a priest, Fr. Michael Sopocko, who was beatified Sept. 28, 2008, in Bialystok, Poland. This learned, energetic, and well-respected priest, was appointed to be the usual confessor to the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Vilnius in 1933. That's where he met the nun whom the world knows today as St.

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