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Angels 4-2012 7.Indd A Catholic Magazine on the Holy Angels Vol 3• issue 4•2012 £ 2,00 € 2,50 $ 5,00 ISSN 2081-5077 St Faustina a chosen soul of God Our duties towards holy angels e year of faith Prophet for a crisis Angels in Genesis DEAR READERS CONTENTS God, who is love, can use the angels to Page 3 St Faustina, a chosen do things for Him and they bring the Good soul of God News. St Gabriel, a messenger of light, came to announce the birth of Jesus Christ Page 5 Amazing Grace Our Lord and Saviour. In heaven, we will – Part 4 be like angels in front of God and the Holy Spirit will be within us. We are His children Page 7 Duties towards and the angels are His servants. Holy Angels Page 8 Interview hen we recite the salutations the guardian angel of Jesus. He is men- with Alan Napleton of the Chaplet of St Michael tioned in a solemn way only five times the Archangel, we invoke the in the Bible. St Padre Pio often said Page 10 Angels in Genesis whole nine Choirs of angels to come ‘Thanks to St Michael, I won lots of W Page 13 The gift of life down from heaven and we should ask battles in my life’. them for different things, calling on The Gospel of St Luke reveals an- Page 13 The Year of Faith them often during the day. gels enjoying seeing the very first and The Bible does not reveal how the most important of God’s attributes, Page 14 St Faustina – Part 2 many angels are assigned to an in- Divine Mercy. Everything depends dividual. The Early Fathers of the on faith, so pray for the intercession Page 16 The Knighthood Church say that from the moment of of St Faustina for a deeper relation- Page conception each of us has a guardian ship with God and your guardian an- 17 Under angelic wings angel by our side who is with us dur- gel. St Faustina needed St Michael the Page 19 Prophet for a crisis ing and after death. They come to visit Archangel and called on him often for and console us in Purgatory. help and assistance. Page 20 The Mystical Nativity The Catholic Church teaches us The true and real angels rejoice joy- to have a close relationship with our fully, pointing the way to God and help Page 21 CDs and Angelic guardian angel. We should treat them develop our virtues and spirituality. beads like close friends, as did the saints. Pray I assure you of the constant to your guardian angel, as well as to daily prayer of the priests of the Page 22 Secrets full of tears the guardian angel of those who are in Congregation of St Michael the Page sickness and unresolved situations, and Archangel for all our readers and their 23 Hymn to St Michael they will help you. families. Please let others know about The Archangel St Michael the Archangel is a our magazine and help us to distribute Page 24 Knight and can be called an exorcist it all over the world. Principalities because he casts to hell all demons God bless you. Page 25 Nine choirs of angels through divine power. According to Tradition and many saints he was also Father Peter Prusakiewicz CSMA Page 26 Prayers and psalm Page 27 New Year Resolutions English translations: Agata Pawłowska, TheAngels Isabel Brak, Joanna Jabłońska Messengers from a loving God Graphics & Layout: Jacek Kawa Page 28 An angelic encounter A Catholic Quarterly Magazine on Holy Angels Websites: www.angels-divinemercymagazine.com Page 29 Publisher: The Congregation www.holyangelsmagazine.com • www.kjb24.pl Belarus Project of Saint Michael the Archangel – Poland Editorial Office:The Angels Magazine Page 30 Editor-In-Chief: Father Peter Prusakiewicz (CSMA) ul. Piłsudskiego 248/252, 05-261 Marki. Poland Retreats Email: [email protected] Deputy Editor and Chief Coordinator: Noreen Bavister Page 31 Distributors Editorial Staff:Agata Pawłowska, Karol Wojteczek, © 2012 CSMA Magdalena Świerczewska, Magdalena Myczko, Rafał Świłło All rights reserved Alan Napleton USA ISSN 2081-5077 Printed in Poland Page 32 Chaplet to St Michael 2 | The Angels | Vol 3 | issue 4 | 2012 ANgElS and saints St Faustina and her confessor, Blessed Father Michael Sopoćko St Faustina, a chosen soul of God knew that Sister Faustina was an greatly because I dared to offend enough to tell him that. She was mer- extraordinary person and a cho- Jesus. She would often say that noth- ciless for sins; she would take a per- sen soul of God from the very first ing hurt Jesus more than distrust; and son aside and admonish them. Imoment we met. As a postulant, I that even if my sins were like scarlet, was tormented by thoughts to aban- I must never doubt that God would don the congregation and my calling. forgive me. It was the very moment to I worked closely with Sister Faustina trust Him like a child, to go to His feet Importance and told her about my problem. She and leave our sins there. She also said was genuinely worried and told me that if a soul was afraid to approach of confession that if I succumbed to the temptation Jesus after a sin, then it hurt the Lord She always told our pupils that I would be damned forever. in the very core of His Heart. Christ although they had received Holy was hurt more by our distrust than by Communion if they did not confess the most serious of sins. She used to they therefore stayed in mortal sin. say: “It is very human to fall because They could not understand how she Her eyes could of weakness, but it is satanic to stay in knew their spiritual life but Sister the sin and yield to distrust.” Faustina knew which soul was God’s read my soul I remember that there was a priest chosen one from the first moment and Her keen eyes could read my soul: who lived and worked in our congre- would say it aloud. In a supernatural she knew about my sins and falls. She gation. Sister Faustina often asked way she knew if someone was dying would often tell me what sin I had me to pray for him as his soul was in mortal sin and asked us to pray for committed and I know she suffered in terrible condition. She was brave Divine Mercy for that soul. She would The Angels | Vol 3 | issue 4 | 2012 | 3 ANgElS and saints cry because she was full of regret for that soul. The time of day was not im- portant; she would stop her meal or a Her words conversation to pray for poor souls. I remember that Sister Faustina told were prophetic me that she begged God to take the When she was leaving the house sense of taste away from her. God heard in Derdy she told me in secret that her request and from that moment she she was going to die in the autumn in did not know the taste of food. She had two years time and that we would not liked chocolate very much but it now see each other again on earth but in tasted like brown bread. heaven. She asked me not to tell any- one about this while she was alive. Her In the last issue Susie de- words were prophetic. Our conversa- scribes her glamorous life tion took place in May 1936; she died in giving away everything ma- Obedience October 1938. When we said goodbye terial, her conversion to the she spoke a lot about my soul. I asked Catholic faith and total sur- and humility her to give me a souvenir. She looked render to God. I adored her obedience and hu- up to heaven and gave me the cross she mility. For example, once there was a always carried in her pocket. I knew it t is a soft Irish morning and play in our congregation in Vilnius. was of great importance to her as it was the change of season can be Everybody went to see it; only Sister from Jerusalem and Father Sopocko, felt in the misty September Faustina remained kneeling at the tab- her spiritual master and father, gave it Iair. Here in Ballintubber, County ernacle in prayer. Father Andrasz said to her. She also promised to pray for me Mayo, looking at the beautiful ab- to her “Go and play” and out of obe- in a special manner after her death. I bey in the early morning light I dience she immediately disappeared still feel her care over me. think back with gratitude to that from the chapel. Whilst a novitiate, I loved her very much on earth early autumn several years ago now she interceded for another novice who and now I love her even more. when I felt drawn to make that fate- did something wrong. Mistress Jozefa ful pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi was so angry that she expelled her By Sister M. Justyna Golofit which changed my life forever. It from the novitiate for a couple of days. Congregation of the Sisters is now six years since I was there Sister Faustina suffered in silence and of Our Lady of Mercy and where I experienced the voice with humility. She did not complain Warsaw, 9th December, 1955 of the Lord calling me as He once about the injustice. Taken from "Oredzie Milosierdzia" called St Francis, into His service. God’s goodness never fails to as- tound me.
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