The world has received Christ's Divine Mercy through St Faustina of Kowalska. With her 1st Class Relics on display for veneration, we invite you to come and visit her Shrine at Divine Retreat Center. Seek her intercession through the promises of the Divine Mercy of Jesus Christ.
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Feast of St Faustina Kowalska
“’Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with mercy.’” ~ dairy No. 301
Come celebrate with us the Holy Feast of St Faustina – 5th October 2023
As one of the greatest saints of our time, with Pope John Paul ii canonizing St Faustina Kowlaska of the Divine Mercy on 30th April, 2000. The catholic church celebrates St Faustina on the 5th October. At Divine Retreat Centre we are blessed to have the 1st class relics of St Faustina Kowalska of the Divine Mercy with the a decree to have a shrine in her honor. Every year on St Faustina’s feast day we will be celebrate this Holy Feast with Holy Eucharistic Adoration and Mass, and with St Faustina’s Holy Relics exposed for veneration. A partial indulgence is granted to all those who venerate St Faustina’s Relics on her Feast Day.
Confession will be available between 7:00am-8:00am
Eucharistic Adoration begins at 7:00am
Holy Mass begins:8:00am
*As by the decree of Bishop Anthony Randazzo, the Divine Retreat Centre Sydney, Sommersby is designated as a Diocesan Shrine in Veneration of St Faustina Kowalska
Prayer of St Faustina Kowalska
I adore You, Lord and Creator, hidden in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I adore You for all the works of Your hands, that reveal to me so much wisdom, goodness and mercy, O Lord. You have spread so much beauty over the earth and it tells me about Your beauty, even though these beautiful things are but a faint reflection of You, incomprehensible Beauty. And although You have hidden Yourself and concealed Your beauty, my eye, enlightened by faith, reaches You and my soul recognizes its Creator, its Highest Good, and my heart is completely immersed in prayer of adoration.
My Lord and Creator, Your goodness encourages me to converse with You. Your mercy abolishes the chasm which separates the Creator from the creature. To converse with You, O Lord, is the delight of my heart. In You I find everything that my heart could desire. Here You light illumines my mind, enabling it to know You more and more deeply. Here streams of graces flow down upon my heart. Here my soul draws eternal life. O my Lord and Creator, You alone, beyond all these gifts, give Your own self to me and unite Yourself intimately with Your miserable creature.
O Christ, let my greatest delight be to see You loved and Your praise and glory proclaimed, especially the honor of Your mercy. O Christ, let me glorify Your goodness and mercy to the last moment of my life, with every drop of my blood and every beat of my heart. Would that I be transformed into a hymn of adoration of You. When I find myself on my deathbed, may the last beat of my heart be a loving hymn glorifying Your unfathomable mercy. Amen
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God is not interested in the physical attitude of prayer. It doesn’t make any difference in what horizontal, vertical, or oblong direction your carcass happens to be; if your soul is not down before God, you are not praying. Your body can be in any condition, but if your soul is bold, defiant against God, you know nothing about prayer.
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