Pope Francis adds feast of Saint
Faustina to Roman Calendar
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Pope Francis makes the feast of Saint Maria Faustina
Kowalska an optional memorial for the universal Church, celebrated on 5
October.
By Vatican News
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments issued a decree on Monday, 18 May, inscribing the
celebration of Saint Maria Faustina (Helena) Kowalska, virgin, in the General
Roman Calendar.
The decree – issued on behalf of Pope Francis – came on the
same day as the Church marks 100 years since the birth of Karol Wojtyla. The
future Pope St. John Paul II canonized St. Faustina in the year 2000.
Her optional memorial will be celebrated around the world on
5 October.
Below please find the official English-language
translation of the decree:
"His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to
generation” (Lk 1: 50). What the Virgin Mary sang in the Magnificat,
contemplating the salvific work of God in favour of every human generation,
found an echo in the spiritual encounters of Saint Faustina Kowalska who,
through a heavenly gift, saw in the Lord Jesus Christ the merciful face of the
Father and became its herald.
Born in the village of Głogowiec, near Łódź, in Poland in
1905, and dying in Krakow in 1938, Saint Faustina spent her short life amongst
the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, generously conforming herself to the vocation
she received from God and developing an intense spiritual life, rich in
spiritual gifts and in faithful harmony with them. In the Diary of
her soul, the sanctuary of her encounter with the Lord Jesus, she herself
recounts what the Lord worked in her for the benefit of all: listening to Him
who is Love and Mercy she understood that no human wretchedness could measure
itself against the mercy which ceaselessly pours from the heart of Christ. Thus
she became the inspiration for a movement dedicated to proclaiming and
imploring Divine Mercy throughout the whole world. Canonized in the year 2000
by Saint John Paul II, the name of Faustina quickly became known around the world,
thereby promoting in all the parts of the People of God, Pastors and lay
faithful alike, the invocation of Divine Mercy and its credible witness in the
conduct of the lives of believers.
Therefore the Supreme Pontiff Francis, accepting the
petitions and wishes of Pastors, religious women and men, as well as
associations of the faithful and having considered the influence exercised by
the spirituality of Saint Faustina in different parts of the world, has decreed
that the name of Saint Maria Faustina (Helena) Kowalska, virgin, be inscribed
in the General Roman Calendar and that her optional memorial be celebrated by
all on 5 October.
This new memorial shall be inserted into all the Calendars
and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of the
Hours, adopting the liturgical texts attached to this decree which must be
translated, approved and, after confirmation by this Dicastery, published by
the Episcopal Conferences.
Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments, 18 May 2020.
Robert Card. Sarah
Prefect
X Arthur Roche
Archbishop Secretary
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