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Foreword

May You, Like Faustina, Find a Friend and Constant Companion in Jesus

Susan Tassone — longtime friend of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception — has a well-deserved reputation as the “Purgatory Lady.” Few other Catholics working in the vineyard of the Lord today have spent as much time championing the cause of the holy souls. That’s why I’m honored and delighted to write the foreword to her latest book.

Here are the many different elements of St. Faustina’s adoration of Our Lord, both before the Eucharist in the chapel and privately in her room. That deep life-changing and soul-changing devotion was at the heart of her spirituality, personal life, and mission. They were acts partly for her own sake; partly for the sake of the world, so badly in need of Divine Mercy; and partly in response to the longing of Jesus’ Sacred Heart for us to return His love.

Susan does a fabulous job of making this important aspect of the life of St. Faustina alive for us today. In fact, be sure to read her chapter on silent adoration. I find this one to be particularly practical. So many times people ask me, “Father, I don’t know what to say in adoration.” Well, sometimes the answer is simply say nothing. Let God do the talking!

Here’s a book that can help you to pray with or without words. It’s one to be used before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and with Him at home.

I pray that you, like St. Faustina, draw tremendous spiritual benefits from your time in adoration. And, as Susan recommends, that you include prayers for the holy souls in purgatory as you visit with our Crucified Lord, the willing Victim. May you, like St. Faustina, find a friend and constant companion in Him, as you make adoration a normal — and central — part of your own life.

May God bless you, may Mary Immaculate always intercede for you, and may St. Faustina pray for you.

— Father Chris M. Alar, M.I.C.

Director, Association of Marian Helpers

National Shrine of The Divine Mercy

Stockbridge, Massachusetts