The Right Priest at the Right Time
Saint Faustina praised him greatly in her Diary, and now those praises will be echoed by the Church.
Here is a passage in which St. Faustina refers to him and asks Jesus about him:
The following is from Divine Mercy: A Guide from Genesis to Benedict XVI (Marian Press), by Robert Stackpole, STD. In this excerpt, Dr. Stackpole discusses the role played by the Rev. Michael Sopocko - St. Faustina's confessor and spiritual director - in putting the Lord's requests to Faustina into action. Father Sopocko was beatified Sept. 28, 2008. His feast day is Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Life can be brutal at times. For all the goodness in God's creation that we discussed last week, there are many experiences in life of nature's seeming indifference to human happiness - sickness, accidents, disease, and death - and beyond that, of "man's inhumanity to man" (e.g. murder, rape, theft, adultery, war, and injustice, lies and deceit). In short, God may be "loving us into being" at every moment, as we said last week, but the kind of world in which we must exist often does not seem to manifest the mercy of God at all.
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