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Blessed Fr. Michael Sopocko

As we celebrate the feast of Bl. Michael Sopocko on Feb. 15, here's a curious fact: two priests ministering to two "secretaries." Surely, God is telling us something.

During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Bl. Michael Sopocko (St. Faustina's confessor) wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin. See his article on the Obligation of Mercy towards our Neighbor from our July-Sept. 1962 Bulletin here.

"In the confessional it became apparent that she knew things that no one under normal circumstances could know about," says Fr. Seraphim.

During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Blessed Michael Sopocko (St. Faustina's confessor) wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin.

During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Bl. Michael Sopocko (St. Faustina's confessor) wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin. See his article on the benefits obtained from the virtue of mercy from our Jan.-March 1963 Bulletin here.

During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Blessed Michael Sopocko wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin. See his article from our October-December 1962 issue.

During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Bl. Michael Sopocko (St. Faustina's confessor) wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin. See his article on the love of Christ for sinners from our April-June, 1960 Bulletin here.
During the temporary ban of the Divine Mercy devotion, Blessed Michael Sopocko (St. Faustina's confessor) wrote for our Marian Helpers Bulletin. See his article on the Divine Mercy Image from the Spring 1958 issue.
Read the Diary passage that "is like a canonization by Jesus Himself" of Fr. Sopocko.

He became more and more astonished at what she was writing.

Read about Fr. Michael Sopocko's early years, before he met a certain nun whose revelations would change the world.
Pope Benedict XVI called him "a zealous priest, teacher and promoter of the Divine Mercy devotion."