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Foreword

Powerful and Personal

I have to confess I was a “Doubting Father Dan.”

When I first learned this book was being considered, I thought it would be difficult — if not impossible — to make a compendium of St. Faustina’s spirituality for the holy souls. Yet, here it is, in your hands.

Author Susan Tassone isn’t just to be congratulated, but thanked.

I’m happy to do both.

This wonderful book not only encompasses an array of prayers, meditations, and insights from the Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul but also intertwines them with beloved traditional Catholic prayers and devotions here “re-viewed” through the eyes of Divine Mercy and sharply focused on helping the holy souls in purgatory.

There is, for example, an examination of conscience based on the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, and a series of meditations from the Diary that can be used while praying the Rosary.

Personally, the “treasure” I was most pleased to discover was “The Seven Sorrows of Mary for the Faithful Departed.” We have no knowledge of St. Faustina’s familiarity with the Seven Sorrows devotion, but clearly, it fits hand-in-glove with her spirituality. And clearly — as with all the prayers in this book — it’s both a powerful and personal way to help us pray for the holy souls.

That’s been Susan Tassone’s ministry and mission for close to two decades: encouraging all of us to remember the Church Suffering and help speed them on their way to join the Church Triumphant.

I thank her for that, too.

— Father Dan Cambra, M.I.C.

Director of the Holy Souls Sodality