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only the truth. From that time on, I changed my ideas, faithfully following the light of
Jesus. I learned that if a soul is with Jesus, He will not permit it to err.
1504 (108) + Lord, You know that since my youth I have always sought Your will and,
recognizing it, have always tried to carry it out. My heart has been accustomed to the
inspirations of the Holy Spirit, to whom I am faithful. In the midst of the greatest din I
have heard the voice of God. I always know what is going on in my interior…….
1505 I am striving for sanctity, because in this way I shall be useful to the Church. I make
constant efforts in practicing virtue. I try faithfully to follow Jesus. And I deposit this
whole series of daily virtues – silent, hidden, almost imperceptible, but made with great
love – in the treasury of God‟s Church for the common benefit of souls. I feel interiorly
as if I were responsible for all souls. I know very well that I do not live for myself alone,
but for the entire Church…….
1506 + O incomprehensible God, my heart dissolves in joy that You have allowed me to
penetrate the mysteries of Your mercy! (109) Everything begins with Your mercy and
ends with Your mercy.
1507 All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us. Let no one
doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person‟s sins were as dark as night,
God‟s mercy is stronger than our misery. One thing alone is necessary: that the sinner
set ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so little, to let in a ray of God‟s merciful grace,
and then God will do the rest. But poor is the soul who has shut the door on God‟s
mercy, even at the last hour. It was just such souls who plunged Jesus into deadly
sorrow in the Garden of Olives; indeed, it was from His Most Merciful Heart that divine
mercy flowed out.
1508 January 21, [1938]. Jesus, how truly dreadful it would be to suffer if it were not for You.
But it is You, Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who give me strength and are always
close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O
Lord, are faithful…..
1509 (110) It often happens when one is ill, as in the case of Job in the Old testament, that
as long as one can move about and work, everything is fine and dandy; but when God
sends illness, somehow or other, there are fewer friends about. But yet, there are
some. They still take interest in our suffering and all that, but if God sends a longer
illness, even those faithful friends slowly begin to desert us. They visit us less
frequently, and often their visits cause suffering. Instead of comforting us, they
reproach us about certain things, which is an occasion of a good deal of suffering. And
so the soul, like Job, is alone; but fortunately, it is not alone, because Jesus-Host is with
it. After having tasted the above sufferings and spent a whole night in bitterness, the
next morning, when the chaplain [Father Theodore] brought me Holy Communion, I had
to control myself by sheer effort of will to keep from crying out at the top of my voice,
“Welcome, my true and only Friend.” Holy Communion gives me strength to suffer and
fight.
I wish to speak of one more thing that I have experienced: when God gives (111)
neither death nor health, and [when] this lasts for many years, people become
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