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[Lent] The Feast of Mercy Mar 20, 2024

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Reflection question: Throw yourself at the feet of Jesus like a little child. Ask Him to pour out His mercy on you. Think of ways that you can exercise mercy toward your neighbor in the three ways described.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (742):

My daughter, if I demand through you that people revere My mercy, you should be the first to distinguish yourself by this confidence in My mercy. I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor: the first- by deed, the second - by word, the third - by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy. Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be acts of mercy, and I demand the worship of My mercy through the solemn celebration of the Feast and through the veneration of the image which is painted. By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. It is to be a reminded of the demands of My mercy, because even the strongest faith is of no avail without works.

O my Jesus, You Yourself must help me in everything, because You see how very little I am, and so I depend solely on Your goodness, O God.

[Lent] Grumbling Interiorly Mar 19, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: What might you be grumbling about interiorly? How could this be keeping you from His special graces?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (690):

On one occasion, I came to know of the condition of two religious sisters who were grumbling interiorly about an order the Superior had given them, and for this reason God had withheld many special graces from them. (131) My heart ached at this sight. How sad it is, O Jesus, when we ourselves are the cause of the loss of graces. Whoever understands this is always faithful.

[Lent] A Great Joy Entered Her Soul Mar 18, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: Where are you disbelieving the Lord? Bring your whole heart with Him. Share with Him your doubts. He can handle it. Then let Him bring you mercy and healing.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (628):

On the evening of the last day before my departure from Vilnius, an elderly sister 131 revealed the condition of her soul to me. She said that she had already been suffering interiorly for several years, that it seemed to her that all her confessions had been bad, and that she had doubts as to whether the Lord Jesus had forgiven her. I asked her if she had ever told her confessor about this. She answered that she had spoken many times about this to her confessors and.... ''the confessors are always telling me to be at peace, but still I suffer very much, and nothing brings me relief, and it constantly seems to me that God has not forgiven me." In answered, "You should obey your confessor, Sister, and be fully at peace, because this is certainly a temptation."

But she entreated me with tears in her eyes to ask Jesus if He had forgiven her and whether her confessions had been good or not. I answered forcefully, "Ask Him yourself, Sister, if you don't believe your confessors!" But she clutched my hand and did not want to let me go until I gave her an answer, and she kept asking me to pray for her and to let her know what Jesus would tell me about her. Crying bitterly, she would not let me go and said to me, "I know that the Lord Jesus speaks to you, Sister." Since she was clutching my hand and I could not wrench myself away, I promised her (86) I would pray for her. In the evening, during Benediction, I heard these words in my soul: Tell her that her disbelief wounds

My heart more than the sins she committed. When I told her this, she began to cry like a child, and great joy entered her soul. I understood that God wanted to console this soul through me. Even though it cost me a good deal, I fulfilled God's wish.

[Lent] Do Not Yield to Vain Terror Mar 17, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: So often we feel unworthy of the Lord. While this is true, we are not worthy of His great sacrifice... He did make it and He made it for you and for me. It is prideful when we believe that we are help, when we don't believe that God can handle things. How can you have more confidence in Him?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (453):

On one occasion, the Lord said to me, Why are you fearful and why do you tremble when you are united to Me? I am displeased when a soul yields to vain terrors. Who will dare to touch you when you are with Me? Most dear to Me is the soul that strongly believes in My goodness and has complete trust in Me. I heap My confidence upon it and give it all it asks.

[Lent] You Shall Not Get Away From Me Mar 16, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: This is an intense interaction between St. Faustina and the Lord. Have you ever been scared to pray and talk to the Lord? Notice how she "began to avoid interior conversations with Him, filling up the time with vocal prayer." Have you done this in the past? Explore.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (429):

When I became aware of God's great plans for me, I was frightened at their greatness and felt myself quite incapable of fulfilling them, and I began to avoid interior conversations with Him, filling up the time with vocal prayer. I did this out of humility, but I soon recognized it was not true humility, but rather a great temptation from the devil. When, on one occasion, instead of interior prayer, I took

up a book of spiritual reading, I heard these words spoken distinctly and forcefully within my soul, You will prepare the world for My final coming. These words moved me deeply, and although I pretended not to hear them, I understood them very well and had no doubt about them. Once, being tired out from this battle of love with God, and making constant excuses on the grounds that I was unable to carry out this task, I wanted to leave the chapel, but some force held me back and I found myself powerless. Then I heard these words, You intend to leave the chapel, but you shall not get away from Me, for I am everywhere. You cannot do anything of yourself, but with Me you can do all things.

[Lent] Self-Denial is Needed Mar 15, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: How can you work on receiving more graces? Do you need to ask for them and be more open to inspiration. Do you need to work on accepting the graces through self-denial? Explore.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (392):

The Lord God grants His graces in two ways: by inspiration and by enlightenment. If we ask God for a grace, He will give it to us; but let us be willing to accept it. And in order to accept it, self-denial is needed. Love does not consist in words or feelings, but in deeds. It is an act of the will; it is a gift; that is to say, a giving. The reason, the will, the heart - these three faculties must be exercised during prayer.

I will rise from the dead in Jesus, but first I must live in Him. If I do not separate myself from the Cross, then the Gospel will be revealed in me. Jesus in me makes up for all my deficiencies. His grace operates without ceasing. The Holy Trinity grants me Its life abundantly, by the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Three Divine Persons live in me. When God loves, He loves with all His Being, with all the power of His Being. If God has loved me in this way, how should I respond - I, His spouse?

[Lent] I Desire to Bestow My Graces Mar 14, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: Pray for sinners today. Ask the Lord for many graces. Ask Him to pour out His mercy on you. Write down whatever comes up for you.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (367):

On one occasion, Jesus gave me to know that when I pray for intentions which people are wont to entrust to me, He is always ready to grant His graces, but souls do not always want to accept them: My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy.

For them I dwell in the tabernacle as King of Mercy. I desire to bestow My graces upon souls, but they do not want to accept them. You, at least, come to Me as often as possible and take these graces they do not want to accept. In this way you will console My Heart. Oh, how indifferent are souls to so much goodness, to so many proofs of love! My Heart drinks only of the ingratitude and forgetfulness of souls living in the world. They have time for everything, but they have no time to come to Me for graces.

[Lent] A Childlike Spirit Mar 13, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: How can you bring more of a childlike spirit to your faith and to your relationship with God?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (332):

When I started the Holy Hour, I wanted to immerse myself in the agony of Jesus in the Garden of Olives. Then I heard a voice in my soul: Meditate on the mystery of the Incarnation. And suddenly the Infant Jesus appeared before me, radiant with beauty. He told me how much God is pleased with simplicity in a soul.

[Lent] The Almighty is With Her Mar 12, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: We often forget that demons are real and there is a spiritual battle happening for our souls. Examine the kind of life you are living. Are you living as if Heaven and Hell are real. Explore.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (320):

Jesus made known to me how very pleasing to Him were prayers of atonement. He said to me, The prayer of a humble and loving soul disarms the anger of My Father and draws down an ocean of blessings. After the adoration, half way to my cell, I was surrounded by a pack of huge black dogs who were jumping and howling and trying to tear me to pieces. I realized that they were not dogs, but demons.

One of them spoke up in a rage, "Because you have snatched so many souls away from us this night, we will tear you to pieces." In answered, "If that is the will of the most merciful god, tear me to pieces, for I have justly deserved it, because I am the most miserable of all sinners, and God is every holy, just, and infinitely merciful." To these words all the demons answered as one, "Let us flee, for she is not alone; the Almighty is with her!" And they vanished like dust, like the noise of the road, while I continued on my way to my cell undisturbed, finishing my Te Deum and pondering the infinite and unfathomable mercy of God.

[Lent] Trust in My Mercy Mar 11, 2024

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: Take out your calendar or write yourself a note. Really sit with and contemplate these words on Divine Mercy Sunday. You can decide now what you want to pray for on that special day.

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (299-300):

During prayer I head these words within me: The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls

These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. These rays shield souls from the wrath of My Father. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him. I desire that

the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy.

Ask of my faithful servant [Father Sopocko] that, on this day, he tell the whole world of My great mercy; that whoever approaches the Fount of Life on this day will be granted complete remission of sins and punishment. Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

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