Ad Iesum per Mariam — “To Jesus through Mary”

THEOTOKOSMater Dei · Mother of God
The emblem of the Christos wing — Christ Pantocrator, King of Glory, enthroned in a gold roundel bordered in Marian blue, giving blessing and holding the Book, inscribed IC XC · Christos Rex Gloriae · King of Glory← Christos · Rex Gloriae

Jesus, I trust in You

The Divine Mercy

Iesu, in Te confido

The same pierced Heart, revealed anew to St. Faustina Kowalska between the wars: rays of pale light and red streaming from the breast of the merciful Christ — the grace of Baptism and the Blood of the Eucharist.

Divine Mercy Sunday · the Second Sunday of Easter

The merciful Christ, rays of pale light and red streaming from his Heart, the wounds visible
The Divine Mercy · original devotional artwork commissioned for this site

The encounter at a glance

God’s mercy is the heart of the Gospel: the Father seeks the lost and Jesus gives his life for sinners. The devotion associated with St. Faustina brings renewed attention to this revealed truth through an image, the Chaplet, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Hour of Mercy and concrete works of mercy.

Helena Kowalska, known in religious life as Sister Maria Faustina, recorded experiences of prayer and reported encounters with Christ in her Diary. The image was requested at Płock in 1931; the Chaplet was received at Vilnius in September 1935. Her mission developed amid illness, ordinary convent work and the help of spiritual directors.

St. John Paul II canonized Faustina on 30 April 2000 and announced that the Second Sunday of Easter would be called Divine Mercy Sunday. Trust never means presumption: the devotion calls us to receive mercy in repentance and to extend mercy through deeds, words and prayer.

With the saints · East & West

“Too late did I love You, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new!”
St. Augustine · Confessions X, 27 · excerpt

For Augustine, conversion is the discovery that the Beauty he sought outside himself was already calling him into communion with God. Christ’s beauty draws us beyond possession into love.

“Every deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church, but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross”
St. Cyril of Jerusalem · Catechetical Lecture 13, 1 · excerpt

The Cross is not an embarrassment to hide behind the Resurrection. It is the saving self-gift of the same Lord who rises and gives life to the world.

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