Sunday, June 30, 2019

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Love everyone out of love for Me
    
 
Then I heard the words, "I am glad you behaved like My true daughter. Be always merciful as I am merciful. Love everyone out of love for Me, even your greatest enemies, so that My mercy may be fully reflected in your heart". 

JUNE 30, 2019

"Let the Word of God come; let it enter the church; let it become a consuming fire, that it may burn the hay and stubble, and consume whatever is worldly; there is heavy lead of iniquity in many; let it be molten by divine fire; let the gold and silver vessels be made better, in order that understanding and speech, refined by the heat of suffering, may begin to be more precious."
— St. Ambrose

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Saturday's Mercy Minutes...

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Whatever Jesus did, He did well
    
 
Whatever Jesus did, He did well. He went along, doing good. His manner was full of goodness and mercy. His steps were guided by compassion. Toward His enemies He showed goodness, kindness, and understanding, and to those in need help and consolation. I have resolved to mirror faithfully these traits of Jesus in myself during this month, even if this costs me much. 

JUNE 29, 2019

"Act as if everyday were the last of your life, and each action the last you perform." 
— St. Alphonsus Liguori

Friday, June 28, 2019

Friday's Mercy Minutes...

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Reflections from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Friday, June 28

The United Heart of Jesus and St. Faustina
In Your Arms

On one occasion, I heard these words within me: Every movement of your heart is known to Me. Know, My daughter, that one glance of yours directed at someone else would wound Me more than many sins committed by another person (Diary, 588).

After Holy Communion, I heard these words in my soul: I am in your heart, I whom you had in your arms (Diary, 609).

JUNE 28, 2019

"Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God."
— St. Vincent Ferrer

Thursday, June 27, 2019

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Your goodness encourages me to converse with You
   
 
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. 

JUNE 27, 2019

"The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them." 
— St. Vincent de Paul

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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The Whirlwind of Work
   
 
I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years. 

JUNE 26, 2019

"Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of whom you are speaking is your brother, and as he is in the way of salvation, God can make him a saint, in spite of his present weakness." 
— St. Thomas of Villanova

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Tuesday's Mercy Minutes...

Today's Excerpt fromDivine Mercy Minutes

On Suffering

Tuesday, June 25

Silent Moments Of Suffering


I do not know how to describe all that I suffer, and what I have written thus far is merely a drop. There are moments of suffering about which I really cannot write. But there are also moments in my life when my lips are silent, and there are no words for my defense, and I submit myself completely to the will of God (Diary, 1656).

The Lord acts toward me in a mysterious manner. There are times when He Himself allows terrible sufferings, and then again there are times when He does not let me suffer and removes everything that might afflict my soul. These are His ways, unfathomable and incomprehensible to us (Diary, 1656).

Monday, June 24, 2019

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Jesus, set on fire my love for You


Most sweet Jesus, set on fire my love for You and transform me into Yourself. Divinise me that my deeds may be pleasing to You. May this be accomplished by the power of the Holy Communion which I receive daily. Oh, how greatly I desire to be wholly transformed into You, O Lord!
 

(Diary 1289)

JUNE 24, 2019

"Christ is my Spouse. He chose me first and His I will be. He made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve." 
— St. Agnes

Sunday, June 23, 2019

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Be not afraid of your Saviour, O sinful soul


"Be not afraid of your Saviour, O sinful soul. I make the first move to come to you, for I know that by yourself you are unable to lift yourself to me. Child, do not run away from your Father; be willing to talk openly with your God of mercy who wants to speak words of pardon and lavish his graces on you. How dear your soul is to Me! I have inscribed your name upon My hand; you are engraved as a deep wound in My Heart".
 

JUNE 23, 2019

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." 
— St. Thomas Aquinas

Saturday, June 22, 2019

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JUNE 22, 2019

"For true hearts there is no separating ocean; or, rather, God is their ocean, in Whom they meet and are united; they love, and lose themselves in Him and in each other." 
— St. Théodore Guérin
The Great Mystery


It is only in eternity that we shall know the great mystery effected in us by Holy Communion. O most precious moments of my life!
 

(Diary 840)

Friday, June 21, 2019

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Heal my tongue


When I receive Holy Communion, I entreat and beg the Savior to heal my tongue, that I may never fail in love of neighbor.
 

JUNE 21, 2019

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Thursday, June 20, 2019

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All the good that is in me


All the good that is in me is due to Holy Communion. I owe everything to it. I feel that this holy fire has transformed me completely. Oh, how happy I am to be a dwelling place for You, O Lord! My heart is a temple in which You dwell continually.
 

(Diary 1392)

JUNE 20, 2019

"If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament of the Eucharist, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude." 
— St. Angela of Foligno

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Wednesday's Mercy Minutes...

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My heart is a living tabernacle


Today, I have come to understand many of God's mysteries. I have come to know that Holy Communion remains in me until the next Holy Communion. A vivid and clearly felt presence of God continues in my soul. The awareness of this plunges me into deep recollection, without the slightest effort on my part. My heart is a living tabernacle in which the living Host is reserved. I have never sought God in some far-off place, but within myself. It is in the depths of my own being that I commune with my God.
 

JUNE 19, 2019

"You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them." 
— St. Therese of Lisieux

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Happy Tesday evening!

Hi everyone,
I'm sorry I haven't written a new blog for some time, but some days, I just don't know where my day goes.  Although I will admit that I have been working diligently on my new novel.  It's finished and I completed two proof reads, which isn't easy to do.

You see, when most folks read a book, we 'surface' read.  This means that we don't always see every letter in a word or do we actually read every word.  So, when I proof read, I need to read every word out loud, so I can tell if each sentence makes sense or not.  It is time consuming and I can only do it if I say each word, out loud.  Even then, some times I slip back into 'surface' reading.

I need to get it ready to send to the printers, but I've been a bit stressed about a water leak we have in our home, so I thought I should wait to try to download my manuscript to their web site, at least for a short amount of time, yet.

I hope you've all been well and that you are putting Jesus into your daily lives.  As I'm sure many of you already know, I post the Divine Mercy Daily Minutes, every day, here on my blog.  I am so happy that so many of you are reading them daily.  I have  my Daily Mercy Minutes book, which I read each morning, before I eat breakfast.  They mean so much to me and I rarely skip reading them.  Of course, I also get them in an email, daily.

I hope you all are well and that your week is going well.  Take care and remember to thank God for all His many, many blessing on all of us!  May He bless you and your family, always.
Susan

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Your love compensates Me for the coldness of many souls


Today, in Holy Communion, I want to unite myself to Jesus as closely as possible, through love. I yearn for God so ardently that it seems to me that the moment will never come when the priest will give me Holy Communion. My soul falls as if into a swoon because of my longing for God. When I received Him into my heart, the veil of faith was torn away. I saw Jesus who said to me, "My daughter, your love compensates Me for the coldness of many souls". After these words, I was once again alone, but throughout the whole day I lived in an act of reparation.
 

JUNE 18, 2019

"Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, ‘Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?’ I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage." 

Monday, June 17, 2019

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Frequent Communions


"But understand that the strength by which you bear sufferings comes from frequent Communions. So approach this fountain of mercy often, to draw with the vessel of trust whatever you need"
 

JUNE 17, 2019

"In the first place it should be known that if a person is seeking God, his beloved is seeking him much more." 
— St. John of the Cross

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Sunday's Mercy Minutes...

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Reflections from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Sunday, June 16

The United Heart of Jesus and St. Faustina
My Agonizing Heart

“Jesus, I beg You, by the inconceivable power of Your mercy, that all the souls who will die today escape the fire of hell, even if they have been the greatest sinners. Today is Friday, the memorial of Your bitter agony on the Cross; because Your mercy is inconceivable, the Angels will not be surprised at this.” Jesus pressed me to His Heart and said, My beloved daughter, you have come to know well the depths of My mercy. I will do what you ask, but unite yourself continually with My agonizing Heart and make reparation to My justice. Know that you have asked Me for a great thing, but I see that this was dictated by your pure love for Me; that is why I am complying with your requests

JUNE 16, 2019

"Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves."
— Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati