Continuing what the Lord gave St. Faustina "to know" ( Feb. 9, 1937)

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

As promised in my last thread on St. Faustina’s Diary entry of Feb. 9, in which Jesus gave her to know it is chosen souls who are upholding mankind, after giving her to know the sins committed during the days of carnival – I’m continuing her words from that time:
  1. On these two days, I received Holy Communion as an act of reparation, and I said to the Lord, “Jesus, I offer everything today for sinners. Let the blows of your justice fall on me, and the sea of Your Mercy engulf the poor sinners”. And the Lord heard my prayer: many souls returned to the Lord, but I was in agony under the yoke of God’s justice. I felt I was the object of the anger of the Most High God. By evening my sufferings had reached such a stage of interior desolation that moans welled up involuntarily from my breast. I locked the door of my room and began an adoration; that is to say, a Holy Hour. Interior desolation and an experience of God’s justice – that was my prayer; and the moans and pain that welled up from my soul took the place of a sweet conversation with the Lord.
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Many in the world today seem to be on an extended “carnival” in their lives – looking for one pleasure after another thinking to find happiness. God made us for union with Him Who is our ultimate and complete happiness. As God’s Word assures us:
…In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. (Ephesians 1: 11-12)
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Like St. Faustina we were also chosen and by our Baptism in Christ, we are called to be holy and to grow as she and all the saints learned from Jesus and Mary how to grow in holiness. We are each unique and unrepeatable in God’s Plan and thus we are not all called to suffer in exactly the same way. We will all suffer in this world because of sin (our own as well as the sins of others) but how will we receive whatever God allows? By His Grace we can will, as Mary and the saints have done, to say “Yes” and offer ourselves in prayer and in little acts of reparation. Some may be called to more, but all of us are called to love as God loves – fully.

Come Holy Spirit, kindle in us the Fire of Your Love.
Mary, Mother of the Church, Mother of Mercy, pray for us.
St. Faustina, pray for us.
 
MariaChristi said:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,

As promised in my last thread on St. Faustina’s Diary entry of Feb. 9, in which Jesus gave her to know it is chosen souls who are upholding mankind, after giving her to know the sins committed during the days of carnival – I’m continuing her words from that time:

Many in the world today seem to be on an extended “carnival” in their lives – looking for one pleasure after another thinking to find happiness. God made us for union with Him Who is our ultimate and complete happiness. As God’s Word assures us:

Like St. Faustina we were also chosen and by our Baptism in Christ, we are called to be holy and to grow as she and all the saints learned from Jesus and Mary how to grow in holiness. We are each unique and unrepeatable in God’s Plan and thus we are not all called to suffer in exactly the same way. We will all suffer in this world because of sin (our own as well as the sins of others) but how will we receive whatever God allows? By His Grace we can will, as Mary and the saints have done, to say “Yes” and offer ourselves in prayer and in little acts of reparation. Some may be called to more, but all of us are called to love as God loves – fully.

Come Holy Spirit, kindle in us the Fire of Your Love.
Mary, Mother of the Church, Mother of Mercy, pray for us.
St. Faustina, pray for us.
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Very good post. If the carnival was an occasion of sin in those days, what must the state of our world be now? 😦
 
RPRPsych said:
Very good post. If the carnival was an occasion of sin in those days, what must the state of our world be now? 😦
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That sounds a weebit time-parochial; the “postmodern” world has no lock on sin. They well knew how to sin in 1937.

ICXC NIKA
 
RPRPsych said:
Very good post. If the carnival was an occasion of sin in those days, what must the state of our world be now? 😦
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Dear RPRPsych,

Thanks for your reply. It continues to amaze me how quickly I’ve seen many countries of the World like Ireland and my own USA steadily grow more and more secular and less concerned about their Catholic Faith. Poland, may be stronger in their Catholic Faith than other European countries, due to the example and writings of three Polish Saints: St. Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe and Pope St. John Paul II.
 
However, unlike your two European examples, the USA was never a Catholic country.
 
GEddie said:
However, unlike your two European examples, the USA was never a Catholic country.
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Dear GEddie,

Granted; however, the USA was far more Godly and the Catholics were more faithful in years past, it seems to me. I continue to pray for the USA and for all the countries of the world to turn to God who created us and loved the world so much He sent His Son. There is a verse in the Old Testament (Deut. 32:5) which we pray in the Liturgy of the Hours which comes to mind: “Yet basely has He been treated by His degenerate children”

Eternal Father I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for my sins and the sins of the whole world.
 
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