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I know that I will give God the glory He expects of me if I try faithfully to cooperate with
God‟s grace.
1549 I want to live in the spirit of faith. I accept everything that comes my way as given me
by the loving will of God, who sincerely desires my happiness. And so I will accept with
submission and gratitude everything that God sends me. I will pay no attention to the
voice of nature and to the promptings of self-love. Before each important action, I will
stop to consider for a moment what relationship it has to eternal life and what may be
the main reason for my undertaking it: is it for the glory of God, or for the good of my
own soul, or for the good of the souls of others? If my heart says yes, then I will not
swerve from carrying out the given action, (129) unmindful of either obstacles or
sacrifices. I will not be frightened into abandoning my intention. It is enough for me to
know that it is pleasing to God. On the other hand, if I learn that the action has nothing
in common with what I have just mentioned, I will try to elevate it to a loftier sphere by
means of a good intention. And if I learn that something flows from my self-love, I will
cancel it out right from the start.
1550 In cases of doubt, I will not act, but will scrupulously seek clarifications from the priests,
and in particular from my spiritual director. I will not give explanations on my own behalf
when someone reproaches me or criticizes me, unless I am directly asked to bear
witness to the truth. With great patience, I will listen when others open their hearts to
me, accept their sufferings, give them spiritual comfort, but drown my own sufferings in
the most merciful Heart of Jesus. I will never leave the depths of His mercy, while
bringing the whole world into those depths.
1551 (130) In the meditation on death, I asked the Lord to deign to fill my heart with those
sentiments which I will have at the moment of my death. And through God‟s grace I
received an interior reply that I had done what was within my power and so could be at
peace. At that moment, such profound gratitude to God was awakened in my soul that I
burst into tears of joy like a little child. I prepared to receive Holy Communion next
morning as “viaticum,” and I said the prayers of the dying 233 for my own intention.
1552 Then I heard the words: As you are united with Me in life, so will you be united at
the moment of death. After these words, such great trust in God‟s great mercy was
awakened in my soul that, even if I had had the sins of the whole world, as well as the
sins of all the condemned souls weighing on my conscience, I would not have doubted
God‟s goodness but, without hesitation, would have thrown myself into the abyss of the
divine mercy, which is always open to us; and, with a heart crushed to dust, I would
have cast (131) myself at His feet, abandoning myself totally to His holy will, which is
mercy itself.
1553 O my Jesus, Life of my soul, my Life, my Savior, my sweetest Bridegroom, and at the
same time my Judge, You know that in this last hour of mine I do not count on any
merits of my own, but only on Your mercy. Even as of today, I immerse myself totally in
the abyss of Your mercy, which is always open to every soul.
O my Jesus, I have only one task to carry out in my lifetime, in death, and throughout
eternity, and that is to adore Your incomprehensible mercy. No mind, either of angel or
of man, will ever fathom the mysteries of your mercy, O God. The angels are lost in
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