Newsletter to the Marian Helpers
DEAR MARIAN HELPERS! DEAR APOSTLES OF DIVINE MERCY!
June is a month especially dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A heart that is wide open to us also in the image of Merciful Jesus, which is so close to us, and from it flows the source of the graces we need. The heart of Jesus is wide open to each and every one of us. The question that still requires our personal answer is whether our human hearts are really open to God’s Love, or are we trying to be satisfied with its substitutes that which the world offers?
The events of the last days, and especially the war in Ukraine, clearly show that where there is no true Love, man, whatever name he has, whatever education he has, eventually gets lost and cannot live normally anymore. He contradicts himself. It is no accident that, especially today, the message of Divine Mercy must be zealously proclaimed, so that those who suffer do not doubt that God loves them and experiences pain with them, and those who hurt them, let them convert as soon as possible and start a new life!
Saint Sister Faustina was particularly sensitive to the suffering that ungrateful human hearts inflict on the heart of Jesus. This is why she prayed these moving words, that we can read in her Diary (57):
O my Jesus, You are the life of my life. You know only too well that I long for nothing but the glory of Your Name and that souls come to know Your goodness. Why do souls avoid You, Jesus? — I don’t understand that. Oh, if I could only cut my heart into tiny pieces and in this way offer to You, O Jesus, each piece as a heart whole and entire, to make up in part for the hearts that do not love You! I love You, Jesus, with every drop of my blood, and I would gladly shed my blood for You to give You a proof of the sincerity of my love. O God, the more I know You the less I can comprehend You, but this “non-comprehension” lets me realize how great You are! And it is this impossibility of comprehending You which enflames my heart anew for You, O Lord.
In the Heart of Jesus, we see that God’s Heart is filled with love for us so much, that Christ was ready to suffer and die for us in the most terrifying manner. The Sacred Heart teaches us that there is always a price to pay for true love, and it also requires a total commitment from ourselves. That is why we, as Apostles of Divine Mercy, are invited to proclaim the Good News all of the time, at every moment, and everywhere, not only sometimes. This is a particularly urgent task, especially today, when many people forget about the loving Heart of God which is constantly searching for them. Jesus expressed to St. Faustina:
My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy. For them I dwell in the tabernacle as King of Mercy. I desire to bestow My graces upon souls, but they do not want to accept them. You, at least, come to Me as often as possible and take these graces they do not want to accept. In this way you will console My Heart. Oh, how indifferent are souls to so much goodness, to so many proofs of love! My Heart drinks only of the ingratitude and forgetfulness of souls living in the world. They have time for everything, but they have no time to come to Me for graces (Diary, 367).
Therefore, I am asking you, Dear Marian Helpers, who have time for Jesus and come to ask Him for the graces needed, especially at the Hour of Mercy, to join us in telling all the people you meet, especially the abandoned and suffering, that they are not alone and that the merciful Heart of Jesus is for them wide open! Let us proclaim to the world the secrets of God’s goodness and love, which we need so much today. In the month of June, we will pray for all of us to cling to the heart of Jesus again and also for all your personal intentions. Please send all your intentions on the attached form, so that we can pray with you and for you in the great family of the Apostles of Divine Mercy!
Heart of Jesus, blazing fire of love, have mercy on us!
With God’s blessing
Yours Fr. Lukasz Mazurek, MIC
