Faces of Mercy
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Angelina Steenstra, from Ontario, Canada
"Divine Mercy changed my life in 1986. I heard about Divine Mercy and was really drawn to it and made a pilgrimage to Stockbridge, Mass., in 1987. That lead me into my post-abortion healing, through the Diary of St. Faustina.
"The whole message of mercy is what my soul needed to hear to be able to step out into faith and process the grief of an abortion experience I had when I was 15 years old. The words that the Lord gave to St. Faustina were such a consolation to me — that even though our sins be as scarlet, He will make them whiter than snow. In other words, there was no one who could fall outside the mercy of God, even those who have committed the worst sin possible.
"This lead to me discerning a call to go public with my testimony. I began a post-abortion ministry with Fr. Vince Heffernan. We've been offering post-abortion ministry since 1991, and our thrust is the message of mercy, to be instruments of The Divine Mercy around Canada.
"There's a section in the Diary where St. Faustina writes of suffering for the children who died in abortion; that really spoke to me about the truth of what abortion really is. Around me, society was negating the grief, negating the moral wrongness of abortion. Reading those words in the Diary of St. Faustina's co-redemptive suffering for the post-abortive women and the children really sealed it for me. It made me want to proclaim this message of mercy to others and enter into the pain of healing as redemptive suffering, that going through the journey of healing would not only help save my own soul, but I would be participating in a greater picture of the salvation of souls. My life would not make sense today if not for the message of The Divine Mercy."
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