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Notebook II 522-600 601-650 651-700 701-750 751-800 801-850 851-900 901-950 951-1000
Notebook III 1001-1050 1051-1100 1101-1150 1151-1200 1201-1230
Notebook V
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Notebook VI 1590-1650 1651-1700 1701-1750 1751-1803
Preparation for Holy Communion 1804-1828
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Diary Divine Mercy in My Soul ( I: 501 521 ) |
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Notebook 1 |
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501 |
Oh, how great is Your beauty, Jesus my Spouse!
Living Flower enclosing life-giving dew for a thirsting soul! My soul is
drowned in You. You alone are the object of my desires and strivings. Unite
me as closely as possible to Yourself, to the Father and to the Holy Spirit.
Let me live and die in You. |
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502 |
Only love has meaning; it raises up our smallest
actions into infinity. |
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My Jesus, truly I would not know how to live
without You-my spirit is welded to Yours. No one can really understand this;
one must first live in You in order to recognize You in others. |
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504 |
Not to do anything without the permission of my
confessor and the consent of my superiors in all things, but especially
regarding these inspirations and demands of the Lord. |
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505 |
All my nothingness is drowned in the sea of Your
mercy. With the confidence of a child, I throw myself into Your arms, O
Father of Mercy, to make up for the unbelief of so many souls who are afraid
to trust in You. Oh, how very few souls really know You! How ardently I
desire that the Feast of Mercy be known by souls! Mercy is the crown of Your
works; You provide for all with the love of a most tender mother. |
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506 |
506 "Do nothing without the consent of the
superiors. One must think this matter over thoroughly and pray much. One must
be very careful about these things because, in your present situation,
Sister, the will of God is certain and clear, for you are in fact bound to
this Congregation by vows, and perpetual vows at that; so there should be no
doubt. What you are experiencing interiorly, Sister, are only the glimmerings
of a project. God can make some alterations, but such things are very rare.
Don't be in a hurry, Sister, until you have received more precise knowledge.
The works of God proceed slowly, but if they are of Him, you will surely
recognize them clearly. If they are not, they will disappear; and you, by
being obedient, will not go astray. Speak frankly about everything to your
confessor and obey him blindly. |
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507 |
I desire, O my Jesus, to suffer and burn with the
flame of Your love in all the circumstances of my life. I am Yours,
completely Yours, and I wish to disappear in You, O Jesus, I wish to be lost
in Your divine beauty. You pursue me with Your love, O Lord; You penetrate my
soul like a ray of the sun and change its darkness into Your light. I feel
very vividly that I am living in You as one small spark swallowed up by the
incomprehensible fire with which You burn, O inconceivable Trinity! No
greater joy is to be found than that of loving God. Already here on earth we
can taste the happiness of those in heaven by an intimate union with God, a
union that is extraordinary and often quite incomprehensible to us. One can
attain this very grace through simple faithfulness of soul. |
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508 |
When a reluctance and a monotony as regards my
duties begins to take possession of me, I remind myself that I am in the
house of the Lord, where nothing is small and where the glory of the Church
and the progress of many a soul depend on this small deed of mine,
accomplished in a divinized way. Therefore there is nothing small in a
religious congregation. |
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509 |
In the adversities that I experience, I remind
myself that the time for doing battle has not yet come to an end. I arm
myself with patience, and in this way I defeat my assailant. |
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510 |
In no way do I seek perfection inquisitively, but I
probe into the spirit of Jesus and fix my eyes on His deeds as summarized in
the Gospel. Even if I lived a thousand years, I would not exhaust what is
contained there. |
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511 |
When my intentions are not recognized, but rather
condemned, I am not too much surprised, for I know that it is only God who
scrutinizes my heart. Truth will not die; the wounded heart will regain peace
in due time, and my spirit is strengthened through adversities. I do not
always listen to what my heart tells me, but I keep asking God for light; and
when I feel l have regained my equilibrium, then I say more. |
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512 |
The day of the renewal of vows. The presence of
God flooded my soul. During Holy Mass I saw Jesus, and He said to me, You
are my great joy; your love and your humility make Me leave the heavenly
throne and unite myself with you. Love fills up the abyss that exists between
My greatness and your nothingness. |
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513 |
Love is flooding my soul; I am plunged into an
ocean of love. I feel that I am swooning and becoming completely lost in Him. |
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514 |
Jesus, make my heart like unto Yours, or rather
transform it into Your own Heart that I may sense the needs of other hearts,
especially those who are sad and suffering. May the rays of mercy rest in my heart. |
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515 |
In the evening, when I was walking in the garden
saying my rosary and came to the cemetery, [102]
I opened the gate a little and began to pray for a while, and I asked them
interiorly, "You are very happy are you not?" Then I heard the
words, "We are happy in the measure that we have fulfilled God's
will"-and then silence as before. I became introspective and reflected
for a long time on how I am fulfilling God's will and how I am profiting from
the time that God has given me. |
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516 |
On the evening of that same day, when I had
already gone to bed, a certain soul came to me, woke me up by tapping on the
night table and asked me to pray for her. I wanted to ask who she was, but I
mortified my curiosity and joined this little mortification to my prayer and
offered them for her. |
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517 |
Once, when visiting a sick sister [103]
who was eighty-four and known for many virtues, I asked her, "Sister,
you are surely ready to stand before the Lord, are you not?" She
answered, "I have been preparing myself all my life long for this last
hour." And then she added, "Old age does not dispense one from the
combat." |
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518 |
+ Before All Souls' Day, I went to the cemetery at
dusk. Although it was locked, I managed to open the gate a bit and said,
"If you need something, my dear little souls, I will be glad to help you
to the extent that the rule permits me." I then heard these words,
"Do the will of God; we are happy in the measure that we have fulfilled
God's will." |
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519 |
In the evening, these souls came and asked me to
pray for them, and I did pray very much for them. In the evening, when the
procession was returning from the cemetery, I saw a great multitude of souls
walking with us into the chapel and praying with us. I prayed a good deal,
for I had my superiors' permission [104]
to do so. |
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520 |
During the night, a soul I had already seen before
visited me. However, it did not ask for prayer, but reproached me, saying
that I used to be very haughty and vain... "and
now you are interceding for others while you yourself still have certain
vices." I answered that I indeed had been vain and haughty, but that I
had confessed this and had done penance for my stupidity, and that I trusted
in the goodness of my God, and that if I still fell occasionally, this was indeliberate and never premeditated, even in the smallest
things. Still, the soul continued to reproach me, saying, "Why are you
unwilling to recognize my greatness? Why do you alone not glorify me for my
great deeds as all others do?" Then I saw that this was Satan under the
assumed appearance of this soul and I said, "Glory is due to God alone; begone Satan!" And in an
instant this soul fell into an abyss, horrible beyond all description. And I
said to the wretched soul that I would tell the whole Church about this. |
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521 |
On Saturday we left Cracow and returned to
Vilnius. On the way we visited Czestochowa. When I was praying before the
miraculous picture, I felt that ... are pleasing ... [unfinished thought].
[End of Notebook I] |
Notebook I 1-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-250 251-300 301-350 351-400 401-450 451-500 501-521
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Notebook III 1001-1050 1051-1100 1101-1150 1151-1200 1201-1230
Notebook V
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Notebook VI 1590-1650 1651-1700 1701-1750 1751-1803
Preparation for Holy Communion 1804-1828
Diary, St. Maria
Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy In My Soul
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