[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Mystery of God and His Ways

This series will be excerpts from the Diary of St. Faustina. Some are short. Some are longer. I am keeping the spelling from the website in the title.

Mystery of God and His Ways

Who God is in His Essence, no one will fathom, neither the mind of Angels nor of man...Get to know God by contemplating His attributes. (30)

Once when I saw how much my confessor was to suffer because of this work [spreading the devotion to the Divine Mercy] which God was going to carry out through him, fear seized me for the moment, and I said to the Lord, "Jesus, this is Your affair, so why are You acting this way toward him? It seems to me that You are making difficulties for him while at the same time ordering him to act." Write that by day and night My gaze is fixed upon him, and I permit these adversities in order to increase his merit. I do not reward for good results but for the patience and hardship undergone for My sake. (86)

One day I saw interiorly how much my confessor would have to suffer: friends will desert you while everyone will rise up against you and your physical strength will diminish. I saw you as a bunch of grapes chosen by the Lord and thrown into the press of suffering. Your soul, Father, will at times be filled with doubts about this work and about me. I saw that God himself seemed to be opposing and I asked the Lord why He was acting this way toward him, as though He were placing obstacles in the way of his doing what He himself had asked him to do. And the Lord said, I am acting thus with him to give testimony that this work is Mine. Tell him not to fear anything; My gaze is on him day and night. There will be so many crowns to form his crown as there will be souls saved by this work. It is not for the success of a work but for the suffering that I give reward. (90)

When I asked the Lord to ..cast a glance upon a certain soul who was struggling alone against many difficulties, [the Lord said] And if I allow them to seem to triumph, I do this for the sake of My impenetrable decrees. I experienced great peace in seeing how all things are determined by the Lord. (1610)

..I am not always heard. 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. It is for us to submit ourselves completely to His holy will. There are mysteries that the human mind will never fathom here on earth; eternity will reveal them. (1656)

My kingdom on earth is My life in the human soul. Write..that I Myself am the spiritual guide of souls - and I guide them indirectly through the priest, and lead each one to sanctity by a road known to Me alone. (1784)

Lenten Series Ping!

[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Mystery of God and His Ways
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: God's Infinite Mercy
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Mary, Mother of Jesus
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Love

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy."