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Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

PART ONE:
A WHOLE-BURNT OFFERING

Meditation:

February 7, [1937]. Today, the Lord said to me,** I demand of you a perfect and whole-burnt offering; an offering of the will. No other sacrifice can compare with this one. I Myself am directing your life and arranging things in such a way that you will be for Me a continual sacrifice and will always do My will** (Diary, 923).

My Prayer Response:
Jesus, raise up many souls like St. Faustina to live a perfect and whole-burnt offering of their will to Your will. May they bring many souls to You!

*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

PART TWO:
A WHOLE-BURNT OFFERING

Meditation:

And for the accomplishment of this offering, you will unite yourself with Me on the Cross. I know what you can do. I Myself will give you many orders directly, but I will delay the possibility of their being carried out and make it depend on others (Diary, 923).

My Prayer Response:

Lord Jesus, You know how weak I am. You know I want to do Your will, but I get detoured and distracted. In the words of St. Bernard, help me “to lean on You, my Beloved.”

*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

PART THREE:
A WHOLE-BURNT OFFERING

Meditation:

But what the superiors will not manage to do, I Myself will accomplish directly in your soul. And in the most hidden depths of your soul, a perfect holocaust will be carried out, not just for a while, but know, My daughter, that this offering will last until your death (Diary, 923).

My Prayer Response:

Thank You, Jesus, for the promise that You will do what I cannot do. May I live the total surrender to You that You promise to souls who desire to be a perfect holocaust for the salvation of souls.

*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1021

I want to be a quiet little dwelling place for Jesus to rest in. I shall admit nothing that might awaken my Beloved. My concealment gives me a chance to commune constantly and exclusively with my Bridegroom. I commune with creatures in so far as it is pleasing to Him.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 454

I look for no happiness beyond my own interior where God dwells. I rejoice that God dwells within me; here I abide with Him unendingly; it is here that my greatest intimacy with Him exists; here I dwell with Him in safety; here is a place not probed by the human eye. The Blessed Virgin encourages me to commune with God in this way.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 208

O you small, everyday sacrifices, you are to me like wild flowers which I strew over the feet of my beloved Jesus. I sometimes compare these trifles to the heroic virtues, and that is because their enduring nature demands heroism.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 379

“With souls that have recourse to My mercy and with those that glorify and proclaim My great mercy to others, I will deal according to My infinite mercy at the hour of their death”.

Words of Jesus to St. Faustina
 
November 20, 2016 - Solemnity of Christ the King
End of the Year of Mercy, The Eucharist and the Family

Today’s Scripture Readings and reflections:
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Sharing this reflection from today’s Euchalette, Solemnity of Christ the King, Nov. 20, 2016, p.1:

JESUS, THE KING OF MERCIFUL LOVE

"Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year. It is appropriate that on this day, we proclaim Jesus Christ not only as our personal Lord and King, but also as “King of the Universe.” He is King by birth because he is the Son of the Eternal Father from whom all kingly power derives. He is also King by conquest, for he triumphed over sin and death through his glorious resurrection. He should also be King by acclamation as we proclaim with our voices and our lives that he is, indeed, our Savior and our King.

On this Solemnity of Christ the King and the end of the Year of Mercy, the Eucharist and the Family, we also thank the Lord for all the blessings he has granted us in the course of the liturgical year now about to end. In particular, we thank him for the innumerable spiritual graces he has given us. Let our Eucharist today, then, be a hymn of glory and thanks to Jesus, the only King of our hearts, and a renewal of our allegiance to him."
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

WHEN SUFFERINGS ARE GREAT

Meditation:

My daughter, know that if I allow you to feel and have a more profound knowledge of My sufferings, that is a grace from Me. But when your mind is dimmed and your sufferings are great, it is then that you take an active part in My Passion, and I am conforming you more fully to Myself. It is your task to submit yourself to My will at such times, more than at others . . . (Diary, 1697).

My Prayer Response:

Lord Jesus, when things get tough and I get fatigued and my mind is dimmed and the sufferings are great — help me at such times to submit to Your will even more! At just such times, may I take an active part in Your Passion.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 777

I was in heaven, in spirit, and I saw its inconceivable beauties and the happiness that awaits us after death. I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God. I saw how great is happiness in God, which spreads to all creatures, making them happy.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 20

In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. They were praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid. I asked these souls what their greatest suffering was. They answered me in one voice that their greatest torment was longing for God.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1698

God’s mercy sometimes touches the sinner at the last moment in a wondrous and mysterious way. Outwardly, it seems as if everything were lost, but it is not so. The soul, illumined by a ray of God’s powerful final grace, turns to God in the last moment with such a power of love that, in an instant, it receives from God forgiveness of sin and punishment, while outwardly it shows no sign either of repentance or of contrition.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF

Meditation:

I saw Jesus, and from His Heart there issued those same two rays, which enveloped me, whole and entire. At the same moment, all my torments vanished. My daughter, the Lord said, know that of yourself you are just what you have gone through, and it is only by My grace that you are a participant of eternal life and all the gifts I lavish on you. And with these words of the Lord, there came to me a true knowledge of myself. Jesus is giving me a lesson in deep humility and, at the same time, one of total trust in Him. My heart is reduced to dust and ashes, and even if all people were to trample me under their feet, I would still consider that a favor (Diary, 1559).

My Prayer Response:

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for the graces and mercy You have lavished on me. Without them, I am nothing, but with them and only with them, I am a participant of eternal life. May I live in this true knowledge of myself.

*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1811

“Eternal life must begin already here on earth through Holy Communion. Each Holy Communion makes you more capable of communing with God throughout eternity”.

Words of Jesus to St. Faustina
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 421

Seeing that so many souls have been granted divine mercy these days, I regard as nothing even the greatest suffering and toil, even if they were to continue till the end of the world; for they will come to an end, while these souls have been saved from torments that are without end.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

THE BEAUTY OF HEAVEN

Meditation:

I went across the garden one afternoon and stopped on the shore of the lake; I stood there for a long time, contemplating my surroundings. Suddenly, I saw the Lord Jesus near me, and He graciously said to me, All this I created for you, My spouse; and know that all this beauty is nothing compared to what I have prepared for you in eternity (Diary, 158).

“You know very well, O Jesus, that I am constantly swooning because of my longing for You.” Know this, My daughter, that you are already tasting now what other souls will obtain only in eternity (Diary, 969).

My Prayer Response:

Lord Jesus, the sight of the beauty of Your creation stirs up within me a desire to see the beauty of heaven. “Draw me with Your love that I may be drawn” (Fr. Hauschert, SJ).

*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking.
 
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