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Playing Faustina Changed Me

Playing Faustina Changed Me

After four years on tour and 313 performances as Saint Faustina, actress Maria Vargo has retired from the role.  Here are her reflections on portraying this saint:

Faustina was more than a show for me; it was a living, breathing prayer!   With each performance, I got to fall more deeply in love with Our Lord and offer him my desires and struggles, my joy and anger.  

In my life and in this performance, I’ve learned that Divine Mercy is life-changing, life-giving, and soul-saving.  I've seen it, I've heard about it and I've lived it.   

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An Arduous Journey Home

An Arduous Journey Home

Mien Yockmann has spent the last six months editing the Faustina film.  Here he reflects on what this experience has meant to him:

If you were to tell me just a year ago that I’d be working for a Catholic organization on a film about a mystic saint, I would’ve looked at you cynically, and said, “Yeah, right!”

Yet that’s exactly where I am today.

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Crocheting for Souls

Crocheting for Souls

During the scene where Faustina begs Jesus for the conversion of a soul for every stitch she makes, actress Jennifer Pagano crochets a little piece of needlework.  After the show, she asks the Holy Spirit to show her someone to whom she should give it. Here’s what happened one night in San Clemente, CA:   

Elena was not planning to come to see Faustina, but her boss had an extra ticket, so she agreed to go.  She knew nothing about Saint Faustina or Divine Mercy, yet when the play began, she started to cry.   

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Faustina Movie Update

Faustina Movie Update

By Leonardo Defilippis

With the Holy Spirit’s help, we are striving to capture, in cinematic form, the sorrowful mystery of the Scourging of Jesus.  

Picture Faustina alone in her convent cell. All of a sudden, she is transported in a vision to the time and place of the scourging.  Seeing her weep like the holy women of Jerusalem, Jesus looks up in great anguish.  

“I suffer even greater pain than that which you see, my daughter,” He tells her.   

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