Author Topic: St. Faustinaher imagenovus ordo invention? (Read 1126 times)

curiouscatholic23 · « **on:** August 18, 2011, 02:11:23 AM »

I'm thinking about buying the image of Jesus that "St." Faustina showed and displaying it in my home. My only worry is that it is a novus ordo invention. Is it? Or should trads be interested in this private revelation?

It makes me very nervous that JP2 was interested in her.

Ethelred · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:38:27 AM »

I strongly suggest to stay away from anything having to do with the Newsaint Faustina from Poland, her so called „biographic“ book and the fraud picture showing a soft-version of our Lord. All three are massively used by the Newchurch for their Newfaith.

Her „biographic“ book contains correct parts and wrong parts, but altogether it's corrupted. There are also some outrageous things in the book which allegedly she visioned, for example and if I remember correctly, at one occasion she writes that Our Lord appeared totally naked before her. I'm sorry that I wasted my time reading the book once in the past, when I was young and dumb.

The very famous picture which allegedly shows Our Lord as seen by Faustine is a fraud picture by the way, because it is not the original picture which Faustine told a painter to draw. The original picture shows a very different man and is much darker.

I heard that maybe Faustine is not responsible for the corruption of the book, but well, we cannot solve that mess. We've to wait for a real pope to clear all the Newchurch's Newblessed and Newsaints anyway. That was the former position of Archbishop Lefebvre's SSPX.

I kindly suggest to take resort to the countless Saints and their books approved by the "old" Church.

evensong · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2011, 12:41:12 PM »

Curious, I agree that it is best to avoid newchurch icons. From what I've read, much of her 'revelations" are questionable. In fact, I believe I saw some good posts on the subject here on this forum.

For a wonderful image that is sure to bring you many graces, I suggest the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Now THAT is a truly, unabashedly Catholic devotion, promoted by so many undeniably true Saints.

I can affirm from my own life that honoring an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, especially the family enthronement and family consecration, bring saving graces.
However, since Sister Lucia of Fatima has said that Our Lord appeared to her and said that He wanted the image of His Mother's Immaculate Heart honored alongside of His, our family enthroned a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary besides Our Lord and it is very nearly miraculous the graces that Our Lord and His Mother have given.

When we have such wonderful devotions as the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart, it really doesn't make sense to go for these dubious things. And I wouldn't trust anything JPII did or said. After Assisi, I became convinced that he wouldn't recognize true Catholicity if it bit him.

curiouscatholic23 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2011, 12:53:48 PM »

Thanks for the replies. I'm probably just going to by a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe and display that. In my opinion, that is the most beautiful picture.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2011, 03:15:50 PM »

We actually have had a Divine Mercy image in our home since I was little. What's interesting is that it's a Divine Mercy painted in another style with the addition of the Sacred Heart in between the two rays. While I have doubts like everyone else about the DM, I actually like the way Christ is portrayed in this particular version. He seems very firm, masculine, but gentle at the same time. I think the painter should have made it a version solely of the Sacred Heart instead actually. I can't find a copy on the internet to show yall, though I found a few similar images too small to display.

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2011, 12:49:49 AM »

We actually have an image in church hall like the one you mentioned, Catholic Samurai. I had gathered something about the diary of Sr. Faustina as having writing that smacks of pride too. I am not even sure that the original diary is even around today at all. She also wrote phonetically, and so there would have been difficulty in writing it with correct Polish grammar. I think it needs some more investigation, although I would say that it may be supprressed and even condemned when the Church is restored again. In fact, the Divine Mercy devotion was suppressed in 1959 under Pope John XXIII, when Cardinal Ottaviani was Prefect of the Holy Office.

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2011, 06:13:30 PM »

Bumping a thread of interest regarding the so-called "divine mercy devotion."