Thursday's Mercy Minutes...

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Your mission to win souls for Me After Holy Communion today, Jesus said, "My daughter give Me souls. Know that it is your mission to win souls for Me by prayer and sacrifice, and by encouraging them to trust in My mercy". Oh, how greatly I desire the glory of Your mercy - for me, bitterness and suffering! When I see the glory of Your mercy, I am immeasurably happy. Let all disgrace, humiliation and abasement come down upon me, as long as the glory and praise of Your mercy resounds everywhere - that's all that matters. (Diary 1690 - 1691)

Guess what? It's Hump Day!

Hi everyone,

How's your day going so far?  If you like the heat, you should be here in Pennsylvania.  Today was the fourth day in a row with the temperature in the high 90's, with the humidity being very high, which made it feel more like around 100 degrees.

I for one, will be glad to wave goodbye to this summer, whenever that may be.  Although, I hope it's soon.  I don't understand why we don't have a spring or fall anymore.  We seem to go directly from summer into winter.  I see that the Farmer's Almanac predicts an extremely cold and heavy snowy winter for this year.  Just what I wanted to hear!  (That, my friends, is my sarcasm speaking!)

I've had to have some extensive dental work done during the past couple of months.  Hopefully, I am now finished, at least I hope so.  As I left their office the other day, I told them that I enjoy talking with them, but I truly hope that I don't see them for about six months now.  They laughed at that.

Making matters worse, I went to the eye doctor about two and one half weeks ago, and I needed new glassed.  So, I picked them up a few days ago, and today the one lens fell out and I couldn't get it back in.  Besides that, they don't seem right to me.  Instead of making my close-up (bifocal) better, it's seems worse to me.  They also just don't sit right causing me to have some discomfort.  So, it's back to the eye doctors soon!  I sincerely hope they get it right this time.

If you're reading this, it surely must seem that things aren't going too well for me lately!  I would agree!  I keep telling my husband that I just want my usual boring life back again.  I guess time will tell, now won't it?

I'm so happy to see that so many of you are reading the "Mercy Minutes" I've been posting every day.  They mean so much to me and I hope you all feel the same way about them.

I hope the rest of your week goes well and stay cool and dry!  I do pray for everyone every day, and I offer the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, for everyone, each day when I pray the chaplet.

Here are two of the Christmas table runners I've completed for gifts.  I truly enjoy doing hand embroidered items for my family and friends.  I need something to do each day, as I spend so much time on the sofa with my feet up.  God has truly blessed me throughout my entire life and for this, I am so thankful!

Take care and may God bless you and your families.
Susan

Wednesday's Mercy Minutes...

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I am at peace 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. (Diary 1692)

Tuesday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop Sees God in Everything A noble and delicate soul, even the most simple, but one of delicate sensibilities, sees God in everything, finds Him everywhere, and knows how to find Him in even the most hidden things. It finds all things important, it highly appreciates all things, it thanks God for all things, it draws profit for the soul from all things. (Diary 148)

Monday's Mercy Minutes...

Mercy |  Chaplet  |  Feast of Mercy   |  Petition  |  Book Shop I felt in my soul the presence of the Holy Trinity Once after Holy Communion, I heard these words, "You are Our dwelling place". At that moment, I felt in my soul the presence of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I felt that I was the temple of God. I felt I was a child of the Father. O Infinite Goodness, how low You stoop to Your miserable creature! (Diary 451)

Sunday's Mercu Minutes...

Divine Mercy Daily

Reflections from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Sunday, September 2

Confession
An Abundance of Graces

Know that as often as you come to Me, humbling yourself and asking My forgiveness, I pour out a superabundance of graces on your soul, and your imperfection vanishes before My eyes, and I see only your love and your humility. You lose nothing but gain much ...(Diary, 1293).

Saturday's Mercy Minutes...

Divine Mercy Daily

Reflections from the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Saturday, September 1

Confession
This Small Imperfection

It so happened that I fell again into a certain error, in spite of a sincere resolution not to do so — even though the lapse was a minor imperfection and rather involuntary — and at this I felt such acute pain in my soul that I interrupted my work and went to the chapel for a while. Falling at the feet of Jesus, with love and a great deal of pain, I apologized to the Lord, all the more ashamed because of the fact that in my conversation with Him after Holy Communion this very morning I had promised to be faithful to Him. Then I heard these words: If it hadn't been for this small imperfection, you wouldn't have come to Me (Diary, 1293).