|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
I am mercy itself for the contrite soul
(Jesus speaks to Saint Maria Faustina)
"I am mercy itself for the contrite soul. A soul's greatest wretchedness does not enkindle Me with wrath; but rather, My Heart is moved towards it with great mercy".(Diary 1739)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Say unceasingly the chaplet that I have taught you
(Jesus speaks to Saint Maria Faustina)
Once, as I was going down the hall to the kitchen, I heard these words in my soul: " Say unceasingly the chaplet that I have taught you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death. Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy. I desire that the whole world know My infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy".(Diary 687)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Prayer for Mercy for Poor Sinners
by St. Faustina
O Jesus, eternal Truth, our Life, I call upon You and I beg Your mercy for poor sinners.
O sweetest Heart of my Lord, full of pity and unfathomable mercy, I plead with You for poor sinners. O Most Sacred Heart, Fount of Mercy from which gush forth rays of inconceivable graces upon the entire human race, I beg of You light for poor sinners. O Jesus, be mindful of Your own bitter Passion and do not permit the loss of souls redeemed at so dear a price of Your most precious Blood. O Jesus, when I consider the great price of Your Blood, I rejoice at its immensity, for one drop alone would have been enough for the salvation of all sinners. Although sin is an abyss of wickedness and ingratitude, the price paid for us can never be equalled. Therefore, let every soul trust in the Passion of the Lord, and place its hope in His mercy. God will not deny His mercy to anyone. Heaven and earth may change, but God's mercy will never be exhausted.
(Diary 72) |
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
The Malice of Sin
In the meditation on sin, the Lord gave me to know all the malice of sin and the ingratitude that is contained in it. I feel within my soul a great aversion for even the smallest sin.
(Diary 1334)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Let no soul fear to draw near to Me
(Jesus speaks to Saint Maria Faustina)
" Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity".(Diary 699)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Even the Smallest Sin
Today, I entered into the bitterness of the Passion of the Lord Jesus. I suffered in a purely spiritual way. I learned how horrible sin was. God gave me to know the whole hideousness of sin. I learned in the depths of my soul how horrible sin was, even the smallest sin, and how much it tormented the soul of Jesus. I would rather suffer a thousand hells than commit even the smallest venial sin.
(Diary 1016)
|
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Sin depends upon the degree of knowledge
A magnificent building will never rise if we reject the insignificant bricks. God demands great purity of certain souls, and so He gives them a deeper knowledge of their own misery. Illuminated by light from on high, the soul can better know what pleases God and what does not. Sin depends upon the degree of knowledge and light that exists within the soul. The same is true of imperfections.
(Diary 112)
|
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Judge each one according to his conscience
O most gracious Lord, how merciful it is on Your part to judge each one according to his conscience and his discernment, and not according to people's talk. My spirit delights and feeds more and more on Your wisdom, which I am getting to know more and more deeply. And in this, the vastness of Your mercy becomes more and more manifest to me. O my Jesus, the effect of all this knowledge on my soul is that I am being transformed into a flame of love towards You, my God.
(Diary 1456)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
O humility, the most precious of virtues
Lord, although You often make known to me the thunders of Your anger, Your anger vanishes before lowly souls. Although You are great, Lord, You allow yourself to be overcome by a lowly and deeply humble soul. O humility, the most precious of virtues, how few souls possess you! I see only a semblance of this virtue everywhere, but not the virtue itself. Lord, reduce me to nothingness in my own eyes that I may find grace in Yours.
(Diary 1436)
|
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
Make a novena for your country
On one occasion I heard these words in my soul, " Make a novena for your country. This novena will consist of the recitation of the Litany of the Saints. Ask your confessor for permission" [probably Father Sopocko or Father Andrasz]. I received permission at my next confession and began the novena that very evening. Towards the end of the litany I saw a great
radiance and, in the midst of it, God the Father. Between this radiance and the earth I saw Jesus, nailed to the Cross in such a way that when God wanted to look at the earth, He had to look through the wounds of Jesus. And I understood that it was for the sake of Jesus that God blesses the earth.
(Diary 59 - 60) |
|
| Mercy | Chaplet | Feast of Mercy | Petition | Book Shop |
The Immensity of Your Mercy
At the beginning of my religious life, suffering and adversities frightened and disheartened me. So I prayed continuously, asking Jesus to strengthen me and to grant me the power of His Holy Spirit that I might carry out His holy will in all things, because from the beginning I have been aware of my weakness. I know very well what I am of myself, because for this purpose Jesus has opened the eyes of my soul; I am an abyss of misery, and hence I understand that whatever good there is in my soul consists solely of His holy grace. The knowledge of my own misery allows me, at the same time, to know the immensity of Your mercy. In my own interior life, I am looking with one eye at the abyss of my misery and baseness, and with the other, at the abyss of Your mercy, O God.
(Diary 56)
|
