Most visitors to Kraków now see the great basilica of Divine Mercy first. It looks like a ship. It can hold thousands. It is not the heart of the place.
The heart is still a convent chapel consecrated to Saint Joseph in 1891, built for sisters and for girls who wanted to begin again. In that house Sister Faustina wrote the message of Mercy and died. Jesus had asked that an image of Himself be honoured first in this chapel, and only then in the whole world.
This little book tells how that first room kept the message. It tells of a wartime painter who paid a vow by putting the image on canvas, of a Jesuit who blessed it on the Sunday after Easter in 1944, of a young worker in wooden shoes who used to pray there on his way to the Solvay plant, and of the same man who later, as Pope, called Łagiewniki the capital of the devotion and entrusted the world to Mercy on that ground.
The basilica is the later room. The story begins at the smaller door.
A Silent Homilies booklet. Written to be read in one or two sittings.