Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy: 365 Days with Saint Faustina

“Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska” is soon to become a classic spiritual book that everyone is encouraged to read in their lifetime. On the other hand, many find this invitation intimidating, not just on account of the width of her book, but on account of the depth of its message on The Divine Mercy in each of Saint Faustina’s notebook entries. This book, “Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy,” was written with the hope of guiding you through Saint Faustina’s Diary and her six notebooks of reflections. It can be used on its own to help you pause and reflect on the wonderful thing about Jesus’ messages to her, or as a companion book, as you concurrently read Saint Faustina’s Diary.

“Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy” offers 365 daily teachings, reflections and prayers based upon the pages of Saint Faustina’s Diary. The structured way to use this daily reflection book is to do just that…reflect upon one page on a daily basis. On the other hand, some may feel called to skip around a bit, read a few reflections at a time, or return to a particular reflection through which God spoke to you. Therefore, though this book was written with the intent of providing one reflection for on a daily basis of the year, the best way to use it is any way you feel called and the way that benefits your relationship with God the most.

The first paragraph for on a daily basis offers this author’s insights to the words and teachings of Saint Faustina. The section of her Diary used for the day’s teaching is marked so that the reader can also read her Diary first hand so to see the primary source that the author of this book took inspiration from for that day’s reflection. Though the primary text of the Diary is never quoted, nor are the reflections of this book exact representations of the Diary, they do provide the foundational basis for the spiritual message shared in each reflection.

The second paragraph for on a daily basis offers a short reflection put more as a question to the reader. It offers the same insight in a different format so to enter more deeply into the message of the day.

Finally, each daily reflection ends with a prayer focused upon the message and reflection for that day. The reader is encouraged to pray this prayer several times. Ideally, it is prayed first thing in the morning, again all through the day, and again at night as an examination on how well the daily message was received.

As you seek to live on the world we live in, allow these pages to be a font of Mercy for you from God. Allow God’s Divine Mercy to penetrate your heart so that you’re going to know the abundance of His love and be more prepared to share that love with others.