About My Cousin Saint Faustina

In my own life, my work for the past fifteen years as a Sister of Charity, has gone from 'feeding and empowering the poor' to research in public policy and current legislation, serving as a kind of specialist in national offices focused on the international dimensions of United States' health, education, security, trade and conflict-resolution efforts. In doing this work, the more I learn of the crises domestically and abroad, the more I am convinced that neither weapons nor war, neither diplomacy nor handshakes, neither water nor bread, will give us a world of peace. What is needed, I believe, is a new way of seeing, a new way of caring, a new way of being for and with each other 'as together, on the journey, we honor and allow the Divine to incarnate within the self; as we commune with and allow the Divine presence within every self to transform and lift our humanity to a new consciousness, to a new level of understanding, and to a new depth of compassion for each other; to a depth, an expansiveness, a height, - hereto foreunknown in this dimension of reality. One of the conduits of that new way, I believe, is the practice of the Divine Mercy devotion: a practice of trust and confidence in unconditional love, and in unconditional goodness and mercy, - like to that love, goodness and mercy, which the Divine is for and with each of us, and which we - in our daily living - are to be for and with each other. It is this way of living, which I would like to further clarify for the reader,and which, I believe, Saint Faustina was given toexpress.