The Holy Name of Jesus.
The power in the Holy Name of Jesus shakes even the under world. Do you think perhaps then the world needs the Holy Name of "Jesus" proclaimed from Catholic voices? Phil. 2:10 "That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:"
Father Sopoćko was very supportive of the Divine Mercy devotion of St Faustina Kowalska and in her diary she stated: "This priest is a great soul, entirely filled with God." Since 1931 Kowalska had been trying (without success) to find someone to paint the Divine Mercy image until Sopoćko became her confessor in the middle of 1933. By January 1934, Sopoćko arranged for the artist Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (who was also a professor at the university) to paint the image.
On Friday 26 April 1935 Sopoćko delivered the first sermon ever on the Divine Mercy – and Kowalska attended the sermon. The first Mass during which the Divine Mercy image was displayed was on 28 April 1935, the Divine Mercy Sunday. Fr Sopoćko managed to obtain permission to place the painting within the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius as he celebrated the Mass that Sunday.
In the summer of 1936, Fr Sopoćko wrote the first brochure on the Divine Mercy devotion and obtained the imprimatur of Archbishop Jałbrzykowski for it. The brochure carried the Divine Mercy image on the cover.
God's providence introduces,
Fr. Joseph Jarzebowski MIC (1897-1964) he was to be recipient of these Divine Mercy materials from Fr Sopocko, St. Faustina's confessor, and would hand deliver them to the United States in 1941.
Whilst Fr. Joseph Jarzebowski worked in Lithuania from 1939 to 1941 he met Fr. Michael Sopocko and first hearing the story of the Divine Mercy Apostolate.
As World War II engulfed Poland with full force, Fr. Joseph Jarzebowski on a mission to deliver Divine Mercy materials from Fr Sopocko, escaped Poland miraculously delivering the Devotion to the United States in 1941.
Fr. Jarzebowski came to attribute his own survival to the miraculous power of the Divine Mercy devotion. Hunted by Nazi death squads, he escaped from Poland and came to America via Siberia and Japan. He arrived in Washington, D.C., on May 24, 1941, and remained in the USA for two years, working with the Marian communities and promoting the Divine Mercy devotion.
The first such devotional material translated into English appears with the Imprimatur Archbishop Edward Mooney Detroit in 1944 (See attached) Only 6 years after the death of St Faustina.
37 years later in 1981 the “First edition of the Diary of Sister Faustina Kowalska.” would be printed and the Holy Name of Jesus would be expunged from what was printed in the 1944 Divine Mercy Chaplet (Corona of Mercy). On studying the 1944 version quotation marks are used to identify direct quotes from the Diary.