Faustina was told by Jesus the message for the end times: “‘If you don’t pass through the doors of my mercy, you must pass through the doors of justice.’ Very few people are aware of it. He added news of the Divine Mercy devotion - which is simply “love in action” - is “great and powerful and incredibly necessary,” because St.
Faustina the congregation had produced in the 1980s, “Divine Mercy: No Escape,” to flesh out added details, Father Alar said. It was a member of this order who weaved his way through Nazi- and Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe to journey to the United States and spread the word of the nun, for whom he had been her spiritual director.Īfter some initial storyboards, the Marians brought out a documentary on St. The filmmaker approached the Marians of the Immaculate Conception - Poland’s first native-founded religious order for men back in 1670 - which as a congregation has a special devotion to St. Faustina and was interested in developing a film based on the life of another Polish saint. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.įather Alar said Kondrat had read the diaries of St. The movie was directed by Michal Kondrat, who may be familiar to some Catholics as the director of “Two Crowns,” a 2017 film biography of St. 3 phone interview with Catholic News Service from his native Michigan, where he was giving a retreat.
Shot in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Mexico, Colombia and the United States, “Love and Mercy: Faustina” was filmed twice, with the actors speaking in English or Polish, said Father Alar in an Oct. Faustina surrounding it, according to Marian Father Chris Alar, who is seen on-screen during the film. The 90-minute movie, “Love and Mercy: Faustina,” will also have some features about St. 28 on more than 700 screens across the United States. Faustina Kowalska, the Polish nun whose visions of Jesus led to the Divine Mercy devotion, will have a one-night-only showing Oct. WASHINGTON (CNS) - A new film on the life of St.
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