divine-mercy-in-my-soul

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.”
518 (210) + 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.”
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.
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.
521 On Saturday we left Cracow and returned to Vilnius. On the way we visit
Czestochowa. When I was praying before the miraculous picture, I felt that…. Are
pleasing…. [unfinished thought].
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