The Mystery and Ways of Divine Mercy

An enthralling insight into how Christ uses Saint Faustina to reveal the divine mysteries of His merciful love for mankind. His purpose, as recounted in the book,is to enable the saint to glorify God through her life and co-operate with God's plan of redemption. Permitted to gain a vision of heaven, she notes in her diary: "O my God, how I pity those who do not believe in eternal life; how I pray for them that a ray of mercy would envelope them too, and that God would clasp them to his fatherly bosom."

On prayer and sacrifice, Christ instructs us through Saint Faustina as follows: "You will save more souls through prayer and suffering than will a missionary through his teachings and sermons alone. You must be annihilated , destroyed, living as if you were dead in the most secret depths of your being. You must be destroyed in that secret depth where the human eye has never penetrated; then will I find in you a pleasing sacrifice, a holocaust full of sweetness and fragrance. Outwardly, your sacrifice must look like this: silent, hidden, permeated with love, imbued with prayer.”

The devotions are intended to perfect and strengthen our faith, and inspire in us God's strength and consolation to overcome all the spiritual and earthly challenges to our redemption. By these devotions God in His mercy makes actual in ourselves, through the Holy Spirit, the treasures acquired for mankind through Christ's sacrificial life.

This is a book to be read, meditated upon, and lived.

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Francis Kwaku Poku was educated in Ghana at O Poku Ware Secondary School, a Catholic boarding school. He then attended the University of Ghana and graduated with French and Latin.

After university he worked in Ghana’s security services and served in seven administrations. From 2001–2008 he was Ghana's National Security Co-ordinator and Cabinet Minister responsible for National Security. In 2006, he was awarded Ghana's most distinguished national honour, known as the Order of Volta, for his substantial contribution to peace and stability in Ghana and West Africa.

Francis is now resident in the UK where he is the chief executive of two UK companies, Africa Reconcile Limited and The Catholic Light Limited. He is a parishioner of the Church of Transfiguration in Kensal Rise, and was appointed by the Archdiocese of Westminster as the chairman of the African Catholic Mission, a body responsible for co-ordinating the work of African chaplaincies in the UK. He is also the Catholic Church representative on the Ghana Christian Council in the UK.

He has been married for 42 years and has six children and nine grandchildren.