Wednesday's Mercy Minutes...

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To do even the smallest things out of great love Pure love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or adversity. As it remains strong in the midst of great difficulties, so too it perseveres in the toilsome and drab life of each day. It knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love. Pure love never errs. Its light is strangely plentiful. It will not do anything that might displease God. It is ingenious at doing what is more pleasing to God, and no one will equal it. It is happy when it can empty itself and burn like a pure offering. The more it gives of itself, the happier it is. But also, no one can sense dangers from afar as can love; it knows how to unmask and also knows with whom it has to deal. (Diary No.140)

Tuesday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop By the bedside of a dying person When I entered my solitude, I heard these words,"At the hour of their death, I defend as My own glory, every soul that will say this chaplet; or when others say it for a dying person, the indulgence is the same. When this chaplet is said by the bedside of a dying person, God's anger is placated, unfathomable mercy envelops the soul, and the very depths of My tender mercy are moved for the sake of the sorrowful Passion of My Son". Oh, if only everyone realized how great the Lord's mercy is and how much we all need that mercy, especially at that crucial hour! (Diary No.811)

Monday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop False Inspirations Still, a soul which is faithful to God cannot confirm its own inspirations; it must submit them to the control of a very wise and learned priest; and until it is quite certain, it should remain distrustful. It should not, on its own initiative alone, put its trust in these inspirations and all other higher graces, because it can thus expose itself to great losses. Even though a soul may immediately distinguish between false inspirations and those of God, it should nevertheless be careful, because many things are uncertain. God is pleased and rejoices when a soul distrusts Him for His own sake; because it loves Him, it is prudent and itself asks and searches for help to make certain that it is really God who is acting within it. And once a well instructed confessor has confirmed this, the soul should be at peace and give itself up to God, according to His directions; that is, according to the directions of the confessor. (Diary No.139)

Sunday's Mercy Reading

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At that moment, I saw Jesus, in a bright garment On Friday evening during the Rosary, when I was thinking about tomorrow's journey and about the importance of the matter which I was to present to Father Andrasz, fear seized me at the sight of my misery and incapability, and of the greatness of God's work. Crushed by this suffering, I submitted myself to the will of God. At that moment, I saw Jesus, in a bright garment, near my kneeler. He said, "Why are you afraid to do My will? Will I not help you as I have done thus far? Repeat every one of My demands to those who represent Me on earth, but do only what they tell you to do. At that, a certain strength entered my soul". (Diary No.489)

Saturday's Mercy Minutes...

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Every Christian soul pray for the Church How great should each one's love for the Church be! As a good child prays for the mother it loves, so also should every Christian soul pray for the Church, its Mother. What then should be said of us religious who have especially committed ourselves to praying for the Church? How great, then, is our apostolate, hidden though it be. All our little daily nothings will be placed at the feet of the Lord Jesus as a propitiatory offering for the world; but in order that our offering may be pleasing to God, it must be pure. And for it to be pure, the heart must be freed of all natural attachments, and all its affections must be directed towards the Creator, loving all creatures in Him and according to His will; and, acting thus, each with a zealous spirit will bring joy to the Church. (Diary No.551)

Friday's Mercy Minutes...

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Every soul You have entrusted to me My Jesus, I will now strive to give honour and glory to Your Name, doing battle till the day on which You yourself will say, enough! Every soul You have entrusted to me, Jesus, I will try to aid with prayer and sacrifice, so that Your grace can work in them. O great lover of souls, my Jesus, I thank You for this immense confidence with which You have deigned to place souls in our care. O you days of work and of monotony, you are not monotonous to me at all, for each moment brings me new graces and opportunity to do good. (Diary No.245)

Thursday's Mercy Minutes...

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Souls, do not be afraid of God Transform me into Yourself, O Jesus, that I may be a living sacrifice and pleasing to You. I desire to atone at each moment for poor sinners. The sacrifice of my spirit is hidden under the veil of the body; the human eye does not perceive it, and for that reason it is pure and pleasing to You. Souls, do not be afraid of God, but trust in Him, for He is good, and His mercy is everlasting. (Diary No.908)

Wednesday's Mercy Minutes...

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I speak to Him about everything I spend every free moment at the feet of the hidden God. He is my Master; I ask Him about everything; I speak to Him about everything. Here I obtain strength and light; here I learn everything; here I am given light on how to act toward my neighbour. From the time I left the novitiate, I have enclosed myself in the tabernacle together with Jesus, my Master. He himself drew me into the fire of living love on which everything converges. (Diary No.704)

Tuesday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop My prayer is needed by a dying soul My Guardian Angel told me to pray for a certain soul, and in the morning I learned that it was a man whose agony had begun that very moment. The Lord Jesus makes it known to me in a special way when someone is in need of my prayer. I especially know when my prayer is needed by a dying soul. This happens more often now than it did in the past. (Diary No.820)

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop I will nevertheless not forget about humanity O my Jesus, although I will go to You, and You will fill me with Yourself, and that will make my happiness complete, I will nevertheless not forget about humanity. I desire to draw aside the veils of heaven, so that the earth would have no doubts about your Divine Mercy. My repose is in proclaiming Your mercy. The soul gives the greatest glory to its Creator when it turns with trust to Divine Mercy. (Diary No.930)

Sunday's Mercy Minutes...

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My goodness In the evening during benediction, such thoughts as these began to distress me: Is not perhaps all this that I am saying about God's great mercy just a lie or an illusion? And I wanted to think about this for a while, when I heard a strong and clear inner voice saying, Everything that you say about My goodness is true; language has no adequate expression to extol My goodness. These words were so filled with power and so clear that I would give my life in declaring they came from God. I can tell this by the profound peace that accompanied them at that time and that still remains with me. This peace gives me such great strength and power that all difficulties, adversities, sufferings, and death itself are as nothing. This light gave me a glimpse of the truth that all my efforts to bring souls to know the mercy of the Lord are very pleasing to God. And from this springs such great joy in my soul that I do not know whether it could be any greater in heaven, Oh, if souls would only be willing to listen, at least a little, to the voice of conscience and the voice - that is, the inspirations - of the Holy Spirit! I say "at least a little," because once we open ourselves to the influence of the Holy Spirit, He himself will fulfil what is lacking in us. (Diary No.359)

Saturday's Mercy Minutes...

Divine Mercy Daily
Reflections from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Saturday, October 20

God's Will Vs. Our Self-Will
Strengthened to Do God's Will
I am surprised that you still have not completely renounced your self-will, but I rejoice exceedingly that this change will be accomplished during the retreat (Diary, 369).

[Then] I heard these words: I am with you. During this retreat, I will strengthen you in peace and in courage so that your strength will not fail in carrying out My designs. Therefore, you will cancel out your will absolutely in this retreat and, instead, My complete will shall be accomplished in you. Know that it will cost you much, so write these words on a clean sheet of paper: "From today on, my own will does not exist," and then cross out the page. And on the other side write these words: "From today on, I do the will of God everywhere, always, and in everything" (Diary, 372).

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Lord Jesus, may Your love strengthen me to do Your will everywhere, always, and in everything. May I live the "Our Father" petition: "Thy will be done!"

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Friday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop Grains of Sand in the World Jesus is commanding me to make a novena before the Feast of Mercy, and today I am to begin it for the conversion of the whole world and for the recognition of The Divine Mercy..."so that every soul will praise My goodness. I desire trust from My creatures. Encourage souls to place great trust in My fathomless mercy. Let the weak, sinful soul have no fear to approach Me, for even if it had more sins than there are grains of sand in the world, all would be drowned in the unmeasurable depths of My mercy". (Diary No.1057) s

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Let our judgment of souls cease I often communicate with persons who are dying and obtain Divine Mercy for them. Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary. (Diary No.1684)

It's one sad thing on top of another!

Hi folks,

How is everyone tonight?  I'm sure there will be many different answers to this question.  As for me, I'd answer it by saying that I woke up this morning, thus giving me another day of life.  Also, my day was just routine, and in my opinion, that's a good thing.  I suppose that if many of you knew what my life is like, you'd think it was very boring, but I truly don't.  Since becoming ill, many years ago, I love the days when nothing mush happens.

I am working on my handmade Christmas cards for this year.  I have about thirty done and still have another twenty five or so to make.  I love creating greeting cards for my family and friends.  Although, I have to admit that I can't make them as fast as I used to do.  I can only stay in my craft room, in the morning, for about an hour and fifteen minutes, until the pain starts in my back.  But, please believe me when I say, that I am not complaining.

I am so thankful to God for His many, many blessings, especially for the gift of continued living for me.  He's blessed me with a truly amazing husband who is always there, and willing to help me or to take care of me.  I also know that my daughters would do whatever they had to do to see that I was okay.  I've never doubted that, not once.

Have you ever sat and thought about what your life could have been like?  I have.  The truth is that I was dying back twelve years ago, but God wasn't finished with me here on this earth.  For that, I am so thankful.  What He has done, is to give me a reason to life.  He's given me something creative to do as a way to 'give-back' for all His blessings.  As you may know, I have been making blankets with a hand-embroidered animal in the center of it.  I dress them and use many colors to make them look friendly and loving.  I donate them to a few institutions here in York.  Most of them have gone to the children's section of our local hospital.  I've now made close to 350 of them.  I thank God every day for His letting me know what I could do to give back.  I will continue making these as long as I am able, and God willing, it will be for a long time yet.  Here's a few photos of them.

We all should give thanks to God for all the many blessings He's given to us.  

I hope the rest of your week goes well and that you are safe.  Please pray for all those who have lost their homes recently, to storms and flooding waters.  

Susan