Friday's Mercy Minutes...

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If you do not believe My words   During one of the adorations, Jesus promised me, "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 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".   NOVEMBER 15, 2019 "When you sit down to eat, pray. When you eat bread, do so thanking Him for being so generous to you. If you drink wine, be mindful of Him who has given it to you for your pleasure and as a relief in sickness. When you dress, thank Him for His kindness in providing you with clothes. When you look at the sky and the beauty of the stars, throw yourself at God’s feet and adore Him who in His wisdom has arranged things in this way. Similarly, when the sun goes down and when it rises, when you are asleep or awake, give thanks to God, who created and arranged all things for your benefit, to have you know, love and praise their Creator." — St. Basil the Great

Thursday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop But give me the chaplet, Sister   When I told Mother General that the Lord wanted the Congregation to say the chaplet in order to propitiate God's anger, Mother told me that at present she could not introduce new prayers that had not yet been approved..."But give me the chaplet, Sister, perhaps it can be said during an adoration. We shall see. It would be good if Father Sopocko could publish a pamphlet with the chaplet; then it would be better and easier to recite it in the Congregation, for it is a bit difficult to do so now".   (Diary 815) NOVEMBER 14, 2019 "You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run." — St. Augustine

Wednesday's Mercy Minutes...

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O my Jesus, I will console You   O Jesus, Divine Prisoner of Love, when I consider Your love and how You emptied Yourself for me, my senses fail me. You hide Your inconceivable majesty and lower Yourself to miserable me. O King of Glory, though You hide Your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving You honour without cease, and all the heavenly Powers praising You without cease, and without cease they are saying: Holy, Holy, Holy. Oh, who will comprehend Your love and Your unfathomable mercy toward us! O Prisoner of Love, I lock up my poor heart in this tabernacle, that it may adore You without cease night and day. I know of no obstacle in this adoration, and even though I be physically distant, my heart is always with You. Nothing can put a stop to my love for You. No obstacles exist for me. O my Jesus, I will console You for all the ingratitude, the blasphemies, the coldness, the hatred of the wicked, the sacrileges. O Jesus, I want to burn as a pure offering and to be consumed before the throne of Your hiddenness. I plead with You unceasingly for poor dying sinners.   (Diary 80) NOVEMBER 13, 2019 "You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading." — St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Happy Tuesday!

Hi everyone,
I'm sorry that I haven't posted a personal post for quite some time now.  I do make certain that I post the Divine Mercy Minutes though.  They are so important to me, as well as the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which I pray every day within the three o'clock hour.

My health is slowly declining, but I'm not complaining about that.  I have been spending much of my afternoon and evenings,  on the sofa with y feet up.  Of course, while I am on the sofa, I keep busy doing hand embroidery work.  I am still making my blankets for the children in the hospital here.  I put dressed, teddy bears in the center of each blanket, which are all done by hand.  I also am still making some lap blankets for the residents at a local Nursing Home.

I have also been hand embroidering Christmas scenes on beautiful kitchen towels, in red or green and some in both colors.  I also hand embroidered other scenes on other towels, mostly in dark blue, which I put on white towels with a dark blue strip on each side.  My Christmas towels are embroidered on the same white towels but ones that have either a red or green strip on the sides.

I do hope that all of you are well and that you will continue reading the daily Divine Mercy Minutes.

Susan

Tuesday's Mercy Minutes...

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I was suffering greatly in spirit   Once, I had night duty, and I was suffering greatly in spirit because of the painting of the image, and I no longer knew which way to turn because they were constantly trying to convince me that the whole thing was an illusion. On the other hand, one priest said that perhaps God wanted to be worshiped through this image and therefore I ought to try to get it painted. Meanwhile, my soul was becoming extremely exhausted. When I entered the little chapel, I brought my head close to the tabernacle, knocked and said, "Jesus, look at the great difficulties I am having because of the painting of this image." And I heard a voice from the tabernacle, "My daughter, your sufferings will not last much longer".   (Diary 152) NOVEMBER 12, 2019 "Since love completes all, makes all hard things soft, and the difficult easy, let us strive to make all our acts proceed from love." — St. Arnold Janssen

Monday'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 551) NOVEMBER 11, 2019 "The Lord manifests Himself to those who stop for some time in peace and humility of heart. If you look in murky and turbulent waters, you cannot see the reflection of your face. If you want to see the face of Christ, stop and collect your thoughts in silence, and close the door of your soul to the noise of external things." — St. Anthony of Padua

Sunday's Mercy Minutes...

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Small, everyday sacrifices   O you small, everyday sacrifices, you are to me like wild flowers which I strew over the feet of my beloved Jesus. I sometimes compare these trifles to the heroic virtues, and that is because their enduring nature demands heroism.   (Diary 208) November 10, 2019 "The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure." — St. Bernard of Clairvaux