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[Lent] My Love Deceives No One Feb 19, 2024

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Reflection question: Can you imagine being spoken to like that while you were trying to do work for the Lord? Sometimes the people closest to us do not understand our faith. They cause us to doubt or to feel bad about ourselves. How can you cling to the Lord when others challenge you?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (29):

One of the Mothers [probably Mother Jane], when she learned about my close relationship with the Lord Jesus, told me that I must be deluding myself. She told me that the Lord Jesus associates in this way only with the saints and not with sinful souls "like you, Sister!" (12) After that, it was as if I mistrusted Jesus. In one of my morning talks with Him I said, "Jesus, are You not an illusion?" Jesus answered me, My love deceives no one.

[Lent] I Demand Obedience Feb 18, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: Sometimes we get carried away with different devotions or checking boxes. We can let our desire to "get it right" or "be a good student" get in the way of listening to God and being obedient. It is not for us to know why God has asked us to do something. We must still trust Him. What comes up for you when you read today's passage?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (28):

Once Jesus told me, Go to Mother Superior [probably Mother Raphael] and ask her to let you wear a hair shirt for seven days, and once each night you are to get up and come to the chapel. I said yes, but I found a certain difficulty in actually going to the Superior. In the evening Jesus asked me, How long will you put it off? I made up my mind to tell Mother Superior the very next time I would see her.

... Mother answered, "I will not permit you to wear any hair shirt. Absolutely not! If the Lord Jesus were to give you the strength of a colossus, I would then permit those mortifications."

I apologized for taking up Mother's time and left the room. At that very moment I saw Jesus standing at the kitchen door, and I said to Him, "You commanded me to ask for these mortifications, but Mother Superior will not permit them." Jesus said, I was here during your conversation with the Superior and know everything. I don't demand mortification from you, but obedience. By obedience you give great glory to Me and gain merit for yourself.

[Lent] Jesus, I Trust in You Feb 17, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: There is power in the name of Jesus. When we feel doubt and darkness, we can say, "Jesus, I trust in you." Faustina's faith even when being Catholic didn't "feel good" was so strong. How can you deepen your faith despite what you're going through right now? How can you more fully trust in Jesus?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (23):

That dreadful thought of being rejected by God is the actual torture suffered by the damned. I fled to Jesus' Wounds and repeated the words of trust, but these words became for me an even greater torture. I went before the Blessed Sacrament, and I began to speak to Jesus: "Jesus, You said that a mother would sooner forget her infant than God His creature, and that 'even if she would forget her infant, I, God, will never forget My creature.' O Jesus, do You hear how my soul is moaning? Deign to hear the painful whimpers of Your child. I trust in You, O God, because heaven and earth will pass, but Your word will last forever." Still, I found not a moment of relief.

[Lent] Unable to Find Comfort Anywhere Feb 16, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: When we experience spiritual dryness, we often think something is wrong with us. And yet, almost all of the great saints experienced this. How do you want to coach yourself (talk to yourself in your mind) when you feel a lack of consolation?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today:

Toward the end of the first year of my novitiate, darkness began to cast its shadow over my soul. I felt no consolation in prayer; I had to make a great effort to meditate; fear began to sweep over me. Going deeper into myself, I could find nothing but great misery. I could also clearly see the great holiness of God. I did not dare to raise my eyes to Him, but reduced myself to dust under His feet and begged for mercy. My soul was in this state for almost six months. Our beloved Mother Directress [Mary Joseph] encouraged me in these difficult moments. But this suffering became greater and greater.

The second year of the novitiate was approaching. Whenever I recalled that I was to make my vows, my soul shuddered. I did not understand what I was reading; I could not meditate; it seemed to me that my prayer was displeasing to God. It seemed to me that by approaching the Holy Sacraments I was offending God even more. But despite this, my confessor [Father Theodore [15]] did not let me omit one single Holy Communion. God was working very strangely in my soul. I did not understand anything at all of what my confessor was telling me. The simple truths of the faith became incomprehensible to me. My soul was in anguish, unable to find comfort anywhere.

[Lent] How Long Will You Keep Putting Me Off? Feb 15, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: So often, we know what God wants us to do, but we chicken out, or we let the world pull us away from our purpose. What is God calling you to do that you are not doing? What will it take for you to give Him your yes?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today:

The eighteenth year of my life. An earnest appeal to my parents for permission to enter the convent. My parents' flat refusal. After this refusal, I turned myself over to the vain things of life, paying no attention to the call of grace, although my soul found no satisfaction in any of these things. The incessant call of grace caused me much anguish; I tried, however, to stifle it with amusements. Interiorly, I shunned God, turning with all my heart to creatures. However, God's grace won out in my soul.

Once I was at a dance [probably in Lodz] with one of my sisters. While everybody was having a good time, my soul was experiencing deep torments. As I began to dance. I suddenly saw Jesus at my side, Jesus racked with pain, stripped of His clothing, all covered with wounds, who spoke these words to me: How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting Me off?

[Lent] Do Not Plunge into the Future Feb 14, 2024

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Today we start our new Lenten series called Surrender: With St. Faustina. We're talking about what the unrest we feel when we're thinking too much about the future.

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Heaven is Real Feb 13, 2024

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Heaven is real. Let us act accordingly.

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The Name of Jesus Feb 12, 2024

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There is power in the name of Jesus. We have forgotten that we can call upon His name any time we want. He is there for you and He has what you need.

Join us in the Lenten Decluttering Challenge here.

Declutter for Lent Feb 09, 2024

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