
08/21/2025
~ Daily Diary Quote/Reflection ~ “Mercy on the Move” invites you to pray and help to bring Mercy to a world greatly in need of God’s Mercy.
DIARY OF SAINT MARIA FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Notebook VI
Lack of love in chosen souls. (Diary 1702)
Towards the end of the Way of the Cross which I was making, the Lord Jesus began to complain about the souls of religious and priests, about the lack of love in chosen souls. "I will allow convents and churches to be destroyed." I answered, “Jesus, but there are so many souls praising You in convents.” The Lord answered, "That praise wounds My Heart, because 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 or 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, hatred of all sorts! O heart especially chosen by 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..."
(Used with permission of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M.)
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Reflection: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich; and mayest be clothed in white garments, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and do penance. Behold, I stand at the gate, and knock. If any man shall hear my voice, and open to me the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:15-20)
Lord Jesus, it is hard to hear the words that You have for chosen souls that do not exhibit the love that they are called to.
We must look at these words and wonder if You could say the same about us. Help us to look at our actions and our attitudes. Please help us to see our actions and attitudes in the light of how You see them. Lead us to amend what we say and do, so that we are doing what You want us to do, in the way that You want us to do it. Let us root out egoism, self- love, lukewarmness, arrogance, and hypocrisy.
We recall Your word that it is You who stand at the door and knock. Let us hear Your Voice. Let us respond with our actions and from our hearts. We want You to enter. Guide us Lord, so that we too may be a guest at Your table. Saint Faustina, pray that we may know the way to act, and to follow through in all that we say and do in ways that are pleasing to God.
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Saint Faustina, pray for us.
Jesus, I Trust in You!
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Ark of The New Covenant
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Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us. (Diary 1746)
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