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Ordinary Offerings Most Powerful 

(After working diligently in menial activity, trusting that God would help her accomplish it). 

I took up the pot with ease and poured off the water perfectly. But when I took off the cover to let the potatoes steam off, I saw there in the pot, in the place of the potatoes, whole bunches of red roses, beautiful beyond description. I had never seen such roses before. Greatly astonished and unable to understand the meaning of this, I heard a voice within me saying, I change such hard work of yours into bouquets of most beautiful flowers, and their perfume rises up to My throne. From then on I have tried to drain the potatoes myself, not only during my week when it was my turn to cook...I try to be the first to help in any other burdensome task, because I have experienced how much this pleases God. (65)

 A great mystery took place during that adoration, a mystery between the Lord and myself. It seemed to me that I would die of love [at the sight of] His glance. I spoke much with the Lord, without uttering a single word. And the Lord said to me, You are the delight of My Heart; from today on, every one of your acts, even the very smallest, will be a delight to My eyes, whatever you do. (137)
 
Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love. (140)

2 posted on 04/13/2011 10:12:12 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Lenten Series Ping!


3 posted on 04/13/2011 10:14:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Ordinary Offerings Most Powerful
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Obstacles to God's Grace in Souls
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Obedience
[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

[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Laziness
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Justice
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Jesus' Sufferings
[Ecumenical]Lent through Eastertide -Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Intercession of saints on Earth and in Heaven - Our sharing in Christ's Work of Redemption - through Grace
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Power of the Divine Mercy Image
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Humility and Humble Souls
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Communion for the Sick
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Holy Communion and the Eucharist
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Hell
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Heaven

[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Grace
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Doing God's Will
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: God's Nature and Mystery
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Forgiveness
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Fear
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Feast of Mercy
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Faith and Faithfulness
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Enemies and those who are a thorn in our side
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Discernment
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Death and Dying

[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Periods of Darkness
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Confession of Sins in the Sacrament of Penance
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Chosen Souls
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Children
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Power of the Chaplet
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Busy Souls
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Effect of Holy Baptism on the Soul
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Apostles of Mercy
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Angels
[Ecumenical] Lent through Eastertide - Divine Mercy Diary Exerpts: Abortion

4 posted on 04/13/2011 10:16:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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I love the part in her diary where she asks the Lord to convert a sinner every time she crochets a stich, and then He grants it to her. :)


7 posted on 04/14/2011 3:10:07 PM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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