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[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Chosen Souls
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Posted on 03/15/2011 4:49:16 PM PDT by Salvation

Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts
 
Jesus's words are in italics.  St. Faustina's words are in regular print.
 
"Your task is to write down everything that I make known to you about My mercy, for the benefit of those who by reading these things will be comforted in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me." (1693)
 
 
"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy." (300) 
 

 



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; divinemercy; prayer; saints
This series will be exceprts from the Diary of St. Faustina. Some are short. Some are longer. I am keeping the spelling from the website in the title.
1 posted on 03/15/2011 4:49:21 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: All

Chosen Souls

So I turn to you, you - chosen souls, will you also fail to understand the love of My Hear? Here, too, My Heart finds disappointment; I do not find complete surrender to My love. So many reservations, si much distrust, so much caution. To comfort you, let Me tell you that there are souls living in the world who love Me dearly. I dwell in their hearts with delight. But they are few. In convents too, there are souls that fill My Heart with joy. They bear My features; therefore the Heavenly father looks upon them with special pleasure. They will be marvels to Angels and men. Their number is very small. They are a defense for the world before the justice of the Heavenly Father and a means of obtaining mercy for the world. The love and sacrifice of these souls sustain the world in existence. The infidelity of a soul specially chosen by Me wounds My heart most painfully. Such infidelities are swords which pierce My Heart. (367)
My Heart if 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. (379)
When I approached the altar and began to meditate on the Passion of the Lord Jesus, a terrible pain immediately filled my soul because of the ingratitude of so many souls living in the world; but particularly painful was the ingratitude of souls especially chosen by God. There is no notion of comparison [which can describe it]. ... Each time I thought of God's great mercy and of the ingratitude of souls, pain stabbed at my heart, and I understood how painfully it wounded the sweetest Heart of Jesus. With a burning heart, I renewed my act of self-oblation on behalf of sinners. (384)
The Lord gave me to know who it is that upholds the existence of mankind: it is the chosen souls. When the number of the chosen souls is complete, the world will cease to exist. (926)
 
Today, the Lord gave me knowledge of His anger toward mankind which deserves to have its days shortened because of its sins. But I learned that the world's existence is maintained by chosen souls; that is, the religious orders. Woe to the world when there will be a lack of religious orders! (1434)
 
Why are You sad today, Jesus? Tell me, who is the cause of Your sadness? And Jesus answered me, Chosen souls who do not have My spirit, who live according to the letter [cf. 2 Cor. 3:6] and have placed the letter above My spirit, above the spirit of love. I have founded My whole law on love, and yet I do not see love, even in religious orders. This is why sadness fills My Heart. (1478)
 
I saw the anger of God hanging heavy over Poland. And now I see that if God were to visit our country with the greatest chastisements, that would still be great mercy because, for such grave transgressions, He could punish us with eternal annihilation. I was paralysed with fear when the Lord lifted the veil a little for me. Now I see clearly that chosen souls keep the world in existence to fulfil the measure [of justice]. (1533)
 
Chosen souls are, in My hand, lights which I cast into the darkness of the world and with which I illumine it. As stars illumine the night, so chosen souls illumine the earth. And the more perfect a soul is, the stronger and the more far-reaching is the light shed by it. It can be hidden and unknown, even to those closest to it, and yet its holiness is reflected in souls even to the most distant extremities of the world. (1601)
 
Write for the benefit of religious souls that it delights Me to come to their hearts in Holy Communion. But if there is anyone else in such a heart, I cannot bear it and quickly leave that heart, taking with Me all the gifts and graces I have prepared for the soul. And the soul does not even notice My going. After some time, inner emptiness and dissatisfaction will come to her attention. Oh, if only she would turn to Me then, Would help her to cleanse her heart, and I would fulfil everything in her soul; but without her knowledge and consent, I cannot be the Master of her heart. (1683)
 
.the Lord Jesus began to complain about the ...lack of love in chosen souls.....[Love] has been banished from convents. Souls without love and without devotion, souls full of egoism and self-love, souls full of pride and arrogance, souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have just enough warmth to keep them alive: My heart cannot bear this. All the graces that I pour out upon them flow off them as off the face of a rock. I cannot stand them , because they are neither good nor bad. I called convents into being to sanctify the world through them. It is from them that a powerful flame of love and sacrifice should burst forth. And if they do not repent and become enkindled by their first love, I will deliver them over to the fate of this world... How can they sit on the promised throne of judgment to judge the world, when their guilt is greater than the guilt of the world? There is neither penance nor atonement. O heart, which received Me in the morning and at noon are all ablaze with hatred against Me, were you chosen for this, to give Me more pain? The great sins of the world are superficial wounds on My Heart, but the sins of a chosen soul pierce My Heart through and through..[Sr. Faustina records her tears which ensued as she reflected on what Jesus had said] Do not cry. There are still a great number of souls who love Me very much, but My Heart desires to be loved by all and, because My love is great, that is why I warn and chastise them. (1702-3)

2 posted on 03/15/2011 4:49:57 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...

Lenten Series Ping.


3 posted on 03/15/2011 4:51:31 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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4 posted on 03/15/2011 4:54:39 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Truly some read. I know personally the power of This Divine Mercy Prayer. I never read the whole diary. It’s written in an unusual format. Some read.


5 posted on 03/15/2011 5:16:28 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: johngrace

Yes, it’s a book for the bedside table. Read a few of the entries each night.


6 posted on 03/15/2011 5:37:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I know my mother had it. I think she lent it out. I never found it when she passed. Maybe a relative has it.


7 posted on 03/15/2011 6:19:21 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: johngrace

Can you share your story?


8 posted on 03/15/2011 9:02:37 PM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: diamond6
Diamond-Yes! This I wrote on another Divine Mercy Post by Salvation. If I did it by memory I might fall asleep I am so tired with new daylight savings time hour loss. Tonight feeling sluggish.

My Mother and Aunt were devoted to the Divine Mercy Prayer and Tracts. My aunt would never be without a Divine Mercy tract. If you went with her she would give it out at the grocery store or restaurant. A true witness. Before my mother died she looked at me and told me in the future I would pray the Rosary( I would only say it with her or mother Angelica) and Divine Mercy with special anointing from the Lord. She died in 1999 a few months before my aunt.

Well I have been praying the Divine Mercy since 2004 I forgot what my mom said until two years(Maybe just shy) after I did it daily. This is the most powerful prayer I have ever said. I have experienced numerous supernatural happenings I can not even begin to tell too much typing. I have had at least 4 vision dreams( 3 personal and one national dream). 2 became true about people I know who died. I believe God has shown me who ever we pray for will die in Christ. One was so true to the same TV news Broadcast that I saw in the vision dream 6 months before it happened which was about my friends daughter. Which she died. A drive by shooting. The exact anchor, the town it happened in, the channel 12 news channel in NY.

ALSO!!!

"When I went to the garden one afternoon, my Guardian Angel said to me, "Pray for the dying." And so I began at once to pray the rosary with the gardeners for the dying. (314)

As the sisters were making their vows, I heard angels singing in various tones, "Holy, Holy, Holy," with chanting so delightful that no human tongue could ever match it. (1111)

THIS happened to me after praying the Divine Mercy one night 3 years ago. I heard a low soft singing Hallejuhahs and HOLY,HOLY,HOLY like coming from a radio but looked around the whole house to find this radio (I thought was on). There was no more sound in any other room execept my bedroom. When I went back I heard it but could not find a natural source. I sat on my bed when it grew from a low sound to a very loud beautiful singing of thousands? of chorus for a few ( maybe six seconds) all around me then stopped. I had the perfect peace within my soul I could not get up right away. Just so sweet so peacefully in awe of God. Who I think has a wonderful sense of humour because I always say to people who do not believe "Just keep seeking and you will find". Well boy did I seek where that sound was from in the house. I found it!!!!

Yes! God is so real and good.

Praise Jesus And Hail Mary!!!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!

9 posted on 03/15/2011 9:29:07 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: johngrace

Oh wow!!! Beautiful, thanks so much for sharing this!!!


10 posted on 03/15/2011 11:10:28 PM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: johngrace

I believe God has shown me who ever we pray for will die in Christ.”

Can you expand on this a little more?


11 posted on 03/15/2011 11:12:17 PM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: diamond6
Well, The Good Lord gave me special dreams. The dreams were for people who were to die. The first powerful one was about my Fathers side of the family of relatives. I did not get a specific person. I had a vision of my Father(He died in 1994)taking me to a Hospital. He was warning me to be serious about life spiritual matters. He was hinting about his brother's family.

When I woke up. I thought it was about my Uncle who is ill. I ran over to their homes at 530 in the morning. My cousin M( she has seen angels at 14) was up and believes very devoutly. We talked to others on that side. My uncle was fine. But the one who I feel was mocking me a little. My Cousin's wife who should know better( She goes to a conservative Charismatic Episcopal church).

Well 2 weeks later her son hanged himself from a tree on the High School property. He was 25 just got out of the navy. He was so upset and out of his mind over a break up with his girfriend. He gave her warnings on her computer. She called the family. He was missing for a week. This was the first type of dream. This was a some what vague dream. Some are very specific to the exact event. This can happen after Divine Mercy Prayers at night.

Now why would God give this to me if not to save them in prayer for forgiveness. If you read The Diary you can see for your self.

Praise Jesus!!! AMEN!!

12 posted on 03/16/2011 10:01:23 AM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: diamond6

Wow! I forgot to tell you. My Cousin M tried to kill herself at fourteen over her first love. An angel visited her to stop it. She was warned not to proceed. She was told will have a long life and hard life at times. This prepared her for a aneurysm at 54 years of age. She is paralyzed in the left hand now. But what an angel she prayers all day. Her husband is a blessing too. Also her mother was a big Divine Mercy devotee to Christ. She is too. I hope this inspires you in Christ. Praise Jesus! AMEN!!


13 posted on 03/16/2011 10:15:05 AM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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