All About the Jubilee Year of Mercy

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Diary of St. Faustina - 1741

O God, who are happiness in Your very self and have no need of creatures to make You happy, because of Yourself You are the fullness of love. In Your unfathomable mercy, You have created angelic spirits. Although You bestowed on them so generously, O Lord, the splendour of love and beauty, Your fullness was not diminished in the least, O God, nor have their love and beauty completed You, because You are everything in Yourself.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1749

O God, how generously Your mercy is spread everywhere, and You have done all this for man. Oh, how much You must love him, since Your love is so active on his behalf. O my Creator and Lord, I see on all sides the trace of Your hand and the seal of Your mercy, which embraces all created things.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

AGAIN, THE LESSON OF HUMILITY

A moment later, I again saw the child who had awakened me. It was of wondrous beauty and repeated these words to me, True greatness of the soul is in loving God and in humility. I asked the child, “How do you know that true greatness of the soul is in loving God and in humility? Only theologians know about such things and you haven’t even learned the catechism. So how do you know?” To this He answered, I know; I know all things. And with that, He disappeared (Diary, 427).

The day of the renewal of vows. The presence of God flooded my soul. During Holy Mass I saw Jesus, and He said to me, You are My great joy; your love and your humility make Me leave the heavenly throne and unite Myself with you. Love fills up the abyss that exists between My greatness and your nothingness (Diary, 512).

My Prayer Response:

Lord, again You appeared as a child to St. Faustina and repeated Your teaching: True greatness of the soul is in loving God and in humility. Lord, make me humble.
*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 180

The first attribute which the Lord gave me to know is His holiness. The second kind of knowledge which the Lord granted me concerns His justice. The third attribute is love and mercy. And I understood that the greatest attribute is love and mercy. It unites the creature with the Creator.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1449-1450

Welcome New Year. So today I submit myself completely and with loving consent to Your holy will, O Lord, and to Your most wise decrees, which are always full of clemency and mercy for me, though at times I can neither understand nor fathom them. O my Master, I surrender myself completely to You, who are the rudder of my soul; steer it Yourself according to Your divine wishes.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

PURITY OF INTENTION

Meditation:

When I was apologizing to the Lord Jesus for a certain action of mine which, a little later, turned out to be imperfect, Jesus put me at ease with these words: **My daughter, I reward you for the purity of your intention which you had at the time when you acted. My Heart rejoiced that you had My love under consideration at the time you acted, and that in so distinct a way; and even now you still derive benefit from this; that is, from the humiliation. Yes, My child, I want you to always have such great purity of intention in the very least things you undertake **(Diary, 1566).

My Prayer Response:

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for the lesson You taught St. Faustina about the purity of intention for our actions that delight You even if what we do is not perfect. Purify my heart, O Lord.
*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 926

In one instant the Lord gave me knowledge of the sins committed throughout the whole world during these days. I fainted from fright, and even though I know the depth of God’s mercy, I was surprised that God allows humanity to exist. And the Lord gave me to know who it is that upholds the existence of mankind: it is the chosen souls. When the number of the chosen ones is complete, the world will cease to exist.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

BELIEVE MY WOUNDS

Meditation:

My Heart is sorrowful, Jesus said,** because even chosen souls do not understand the greatness of My mercy. Their relationship [with Me] is, in certain ways, imbued with mistrust. Oh, how much that wounds My Heart! Remember My Passion, and if you do not believe My words, at least believe My wounds** (Diary, 379).

My Prayer Response:

O my Jesus, may my prayer bring joy to Your Heart as You pierce the hearts of even chosen souls who mistrust You in some ways. May they remember Your Passion and believe Your wounds suffered for them.

*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.

LOVE AND MERCY ITSELF

Meditation:

Tell [all people], My daughter, that I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls (Diary, 1074).

My Prayer Response:
Jesus, You are Love and Mercy itself. I trust in You! Fill me with so much grace that it radiates out to others. May I be a channel for Your mercy, a means of grace for others.
*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1743

God, who in Your mercy have deigned to call man from nothingness into being, generously have You bestowed upon him nature and grace. But that seemed too little for Your infinite goodness. In Your mercy, O Lord, You have given us everlasting life. You admit us to Your everlasting happiness and grant us to share in Your interior life. And You do this solely out of Your mercy.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1364

Make the soil of my heart bear good fruit

In the clear rays of Your love, my soul has lost its tartness and has become a sweet and ripe fruit. Now I can be wholly useful to the Church by my personal sanctity, which throbs with life in the whole Church, for we all make up one organism in Jesus. That is why I endeavour to make the soil of my heart bear good fruit.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1577

Tell souls not to place within their own hearts obstacles to My mercy, which so greatly wants to act within them. My mercy works in all those hearts which open their doors to it. Both the sinner and the righteous person have need of My mercy. Conversion, as well as perseverance, is a grace of My mercy.

(Words of Jesus to St. Faustina)
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

A LIVING FOUNTAIN OF MERCY

Meditation:

Today the Lord said to me, I have opened My Heart as a living fountain of mercy. Let all souls draw life from it. Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust. Sinners will attain justification, and the just will be confirmed in good. Whoever places his trust in My mercy will be filled with My divine peace at the hour of death (Diary, 1520).

My Prayer Response:

Lord Jesus, I come to Your open Heart, a living fountain of mercy, an ocean of mercy — with trust in You! I come and appeal to Your mercy both for sinners and for the just that we may all be filled with Your divine peace at the hour of death.

*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.

APPEAL TO MY MERCY

Meditation:

Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on the contrary, I justify him in My unfathomable and inscrutable mercy (Diary, 1146).

My Prayer Response:

Jesus, I appeal to Your mercy for me a sinner and for mercy on the whole world. Help all of us to appeal to Your great mercy. May we be justified by Your unfathomable and inscrutable mercy!
*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.

BOUNDLESS TRUST IN MY MERCY

Meditation:

Let souls who are striving for perfection particularly adore My mercy, because the abundance of graces which I grant them flows from My mercy. I desire that these souls distinguish themselves by boundless trust in My mercy. I Myself will attend to the sanctification of such souls. I will provide them with everything they will need to attain sanctity (Diary, 1578).

My Prayer Response:

Lord Jesus, I am striving for perfection, but I really need more of Your mercy. I am nothing without You. Teach me and all souls striving for sanctity how to adore Your mercy and to trust in You still more!
*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 648

At three o’clock, I saw the Lord Jesus, crucified, who looked at me and said, “I thirst”. Then I saw two rays issue from His side, just as they appear in the image. I then felt in my soul the desire to save souls and to empty myself for the sake of poor sinners. I offered myself, together with the dying Jesus, to the Eternal Father.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1581

O my Jesus, my Master, I unite my desires to the desires that You had on the cross: I desire to fulfill Your holy will; I desire the conversion of souls; I desire that Your mercy be adored; I desire that the triumph of the Church be hastened; I desire sanctity for priests.
 
Reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina
from The Divine Mercy Daily
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Communications.

A WAY TO BEG

Meditation:

After Communion, I heard the voice saying, My daughter, look into the abyss of My mercy and give praise and glory to this mercy of Mine. Do it in this way: Gather all sinners from the entire world and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. I want to give Myself to souls; I yearn for souls, My daughter. On the day of My feast, the Feast of Mercy, you will go through the whole world and bring fainting souls to the spring of My mercy. I shall heal and strengthen them (Diary, 206).

My Prayer Response:

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for teaching us a way to beg for Your mercy on souls. As the Church, we, Your Body, immerse them in the ocean of Your mercy — “baptizing” them in Your mercy. We plunge all fainting souls in the world into the abyss of Your mercy.
*Diary passages with bolded words are Jesus speaking.
 
Diary of St. Faustina - 1541

“When a soul sees and realizes the gravity of it sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother. These souls have a right of priority to My compassionate Heart, they have first access to My mercy”.
 
I am aware of the “clean slate grace” of Divine Mercy Sunday.

I would like to know if that applied to all plenary indulgences during the Jubilee Year of Mercy
 
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