"The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last. Think of the end of worldly honor, wealth and pleasure and ask yourself: And then? And then?

                                 ~St. Philip Neri

For Reflection:

To what does my "and then" lead? How can I make my "and then" count today?

Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of St Faustina St. Faustina Kowalska  Pb 730 pgs Click Here For More Information Introduction 1. Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, known today the world over as the "Apostle of The Divine Mercy," is numbered by theologians among the outstanding mystics of the Church. She was the third of ten children born into a poor and pious peasant family in Glogowiec, a village in the heart of Poland. At her baptism in the nearby Parish Church of Swinice Warckie she was given the name "Helena." From childhood she distinguished herself by her piety. love of prayer, industriousness and obedience as well as by her great sensitivity to human misery. She had hardly three years of schooling, and at the age of fourteen she left the family hearth to help her parents and to earn her own livelihood serving as a domestic in the nearby cities of Aleksandr'ow and Lo'd'z.