Excerpts from the
DIARY of Saint Faustina Kowalska
301 Proclaim that mercy is
the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with
mercy.
341 November 5, 1934. One
morning, when it was my duty to open the gate to let out our people who
deliver baked goods, I entered the little chapel to visit Jesus for a
minute and to renew the intentions of the day. Today, Jesus, I offer You
all my sufferings, mortifications and prayers for the intentions of the
Holy Father, so that he may approve the Feast of Mercy. But, Jesus, I have
one more word to say to You: I am very surprised that You bid me to talk
about this Feast of Mercy, for they tell me that there is already such a
feast[81] and so why should
I talk about it? And Jesus said to me, And who knows anything about this
feast? No one! Even those who should be proclaiming My mercy and teaching
people about it often do not know about it themselves. That is why I want
the image to be solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, and I
want it to be venerated publicly so that every soul may know about it. Make
a novena for the Holy Father's intention. It should consist of thirty-three
acts; that is, repetition that many times of the short prayer-which I have
taught you-to The Divine Mercy.
375 Particular interior
practice; that is, the examination of conscience. Self-denial, denial of my
own will.
I. The denial of my reason. Subjecting it to the reason of those who
represent God to me here on earth.
II. The denial of my will. Doing the will of God, which is revealed in the
will of those who represent God to me and which is contained in the rule of
our order.
III. The denial of my judgment. Accepting immediately and without
reflection, analysis or reasoning all orders given by those who represent
God to me.
IV. The denial of my tongue. I will not give it the least bit of freedom;
but in one case only I will give it complete freedom; that is, in
proclaiming the glory of God. Whenever I receive Holy Communion, I will ask
Jesus to fortify and cleanse my tongue that I may not injure my neighbor
with it. That is why I have the greatest respect for the rule which speaks
about silence.
378 Once as I was talking with
my spiritual director, I had an interior vision-quicker than lightning-of
his soul in great suffering, in such agony that God touches very few souls
with such fire. The suffering arises from this work. There will come a time
when this work, which God is demanding so very much, will be as though
utterly undone. And then God will act with great power, which will give
evidence of its authenticity. It will be a new splendor for the Church,
although it has been dormant in it from long ago. That God is infinitely
merciful, no one can deny. He desires everyone to know this before He comes
again as Judge. He wants souls to come to know Him first as King of Mercy.
When this triumph comes, we shall already have entered the new life in
which there is no suffering. But before this, your soul [of the spiritual
director] will be surfeited with bitterness at the sight of the destruction
of your efforts. However, this will only appear to be so, because what God
has once decided upon, He does not change. But although this destruction will
be such only in outward appearance, the suffering will be real. When will
this happen? I do not know. How long will it last? I do not know.[89] But God has
promised a great grace especially to you and to all those... who will
proclaim My great mercy. I shall protect them Myself at the hour of death,
as My own glory. And even if the sins of soul are as dark as night, when
the sinner turns to My mercy he gives Me the greatest praise and is the
glory of My Passion. When a soul praises My goodness, Satan trembles before
it and flees to the very bottom of hell.
379 During one of the
adorations, Jesus promised me that: 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.
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 1
Remember My Passion, and if you do not believe My words, at least believe
My wounds.
962 + I often see a certain
person dear to God. The Lord has great love for him, not only because he is
striving to spread the veneration of God's mercy, but also because of the
love he has for the Lord God, although he does not always feel this love in
his own heart and is almost always in Gethsemane. However, this person is
always pleasing to God, and his great patience will overcome all
difficulties.
1046 Then suddenly, I saw how
the two rays, as painted in the image, issued from the Host and spread over
the whole world. This lasted only a moment, but it seemed as though it had
lasted all day, and our chapel was overcrowded all day long, and the whole
day abounded in joy.
1074 When I went for adoration,
I heard these words: My beloved daughter, write down these words, that
today My Heart has rested in this convent [the Cracow house]. Tell
the world about My mercy and My love.
The flames of mercy are burning me. I desire to pour them out upon human
souls. Oh, what pain they cause Me when they do not want to accept them!
My daughter, do whatever is within your power to spread devotion to My
mercy. I will make up for what you lack. Tell aching mankind to snuggle
close to My merciful Heart, and I will fill it -with peace.
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.
1075 Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield
through their entire lives as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour
of death I will not be a Judge for them, but the Merciful Savior. At that
last hour, a soul has nothing with which to defend itself except My mercy.
Happy is the soul that during its lifetime immersed itself in the Fountain
of Mercy, because justice will have no hold on it.
1083 + That beautiful soul who
is spreading this work of divine mercy throughout the world is, by his deep
humility, very pleasing to God.
1104
Today there was a beautiful teaching [by Father Plaza on the goodness and
mercy of God. During this conference my soul experienced the flames of
God's love, and I understood that God's word is a living word.
1652 Adore, my soul, the mercy
of the Lord,
O my heart, rejoice wholly in Him,
Because for this you have been chosen by Him,
To spread the glory of His mercy.
His goodness no one has fathomed, no one can measure,
His compassion is untold.
Every soul that approaches Him experiences this.
He will shield her and clasp her to His merciful bosom.
Happy the soul that has trusted in Your goodness
And has abandoned herself completely to Your mercy.
Her soul is filled with the peace of love.
You defend her everywhere as Your own child.
O soul, whoever you may be in this world,
Even if your sins were as black as night,
Do not fear God, weak child that you are,
For great is the power of God's mercy.
1680 Low Sunday. Today, I again
offered myself to the Lord as a holocaust for sinners. My Jesus, if the end
of my life is already approaching, I beg You most humbly, accept my death
in union with You as a holocaust which I offer You today, while I still
have full possession of my faculties and a fully conscious will, and this
for a threefold purpose:
Firstly: that the work of Your mercy may spread throughout the whole world
and that the Feast of The Divine Mercy may be solemnly promulgated and
celebrated.
Secondly: that sinners, especially dying sinners, may have recourse to Your
mercy and experience the unspeakable effects of this mercy.
Thirdly: that all the work of Your mercy may be realized according to Your
wishes, and for a certain person who is in charge of this work...
Accept, most merciful Jesus, this, my inadequate sacrifice, which I offer
to You today before heaven and earth. May Your Most Sacred Heart, so full
of mercy, complete what is lacking in my offering, and offer it to Your
Father for the conversion of sinners. I thirst after souls, O Christ.
1692 I adore You, Lord and
Creator, hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. I adore You for all the works of
Your hands, that reveal to me so much wisdom, goodness and mercy, O Lord.
You have spread so much beauty over the earth, and it tells me about Your
beauty, even though these beautiful things are but a faint reflection of
You, Incomprehensible Beauty. And although You have hidden Yourself and
concealed Your beauty, my eye, enlightened by faith, reaches You, and my
soul recognizes its Creator, its Highest Good; and my heart is completely
immersed in prayer of adoration.
My Lord and Creator, Your goodness encourages me to converse with You. Your
mercy abolishes the chasm which separates the Creator from the creature. To
converse with You, O Lord, is the delight of my heart. In You I find
everything that my heart could desire. Here Your light illumines my mind,
enabling it to know You more and more deeply. Here streams of graces flow
down upon my heart. Here my soul draws eternal life. O my Lord and Creator,
You alone, beyond all these gifts, give Your own self to me and unite
Yourself intimately with Your miserable creature. Here, without searching
for words, our hearts understand each other. Here, no one is able to
interrupt our conversation. What I talk to You about, Jesus, is our secret,
which creatures shall not know and Angels dare not ask about. These are
secret acts of forgiveness, known only to Jesus and me; this is the mystery
of His mercy, which embraces each soul separately. For this
incomprehensible goodness of Yours, I adore You, O Lord and Creator, with
all my heart and all my soul. And, although my worship is so little and
poor, I am at peace because I know that You know it is sincere, however
inadequate...
1710
May 26, [1938-Feast of the Ascension]. Today I accompanied the Lord Jesus
as He ascended into heaven. It was about noon. I was overcome by a great
longing for God. It is a strange thing, the more I felt God's presence, the
more ardently I desired Him. Then I saw myself in the midst of a huge crowd
of disciples and apostles, together with the Mother of God. Jesus was
telling them to... Go out into the whole world and teach in My name.
He stretched out His hands and blessed them and disappeared in a cloud. I
saw the longing of Our Lady. Her soul yearned for Jesus with the whole
force of Her love. But She was so peaceful and so united to the will of God
that there was not a stir in Her heart but for what God wanted.
1749 + God's Infinite Goodness
in Adorning the Whole World with Beauty
in Order to Make Man's Stay on Earth Pleasant.
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.
O my most compassionate Creator, I want to give You worship on behalf of
all creatures and all inanimate creation; I call on the whole universe to
glorify Your mercy. Oh, how great is Your goodness, O God!
1796 Today, 254 I saw the Sacred
Heart of Jesus in the sky, in the midst of a great brilliance. The rays
were issuing from the Wound [in His side] and spreading out over the entire
world.
(Diary
of Sister Faustina Kowalska Notebook-I-301, 341, 375, 378-379)
(Diary
of Sister Faustina Kowalska Notebook-II-962)
(Diary
of Sister Faustina Kowalska Notebook-III-1046, 1074-1075, 1083)
(Diary
of Sister Faustina Kowalska Notebook-VI-1652, 1680, 1692, 1710, 1749, 1796)
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