Understanding Reparation
Understanding Reparation
I also withhold My punishments only because of you. You restrain Me, and I cannot vindicate the claims of My justice. You bind My hands with your love (Diary, 1193).
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Turn to any page of St. Faustina’s Diary, and you’ll find spiritual gems, like this one:I became absorbed in prayer and said my penance. Then I suddenly saw the Lord, who said to me, My daughter, know that you give Me greater glory by a single act of obedience than by long prayers and mortifications. Oh, how good it is to live under obedience, to live conscious of the fact that everything I do is pleasing to God! (Diary, 894).
Turn to any page of St. Faustina's Diary, and you'll find spiritual gems. Like this one:When I see that the burden is beyond my strength, I do not consider or analyze it or probe into it, but I run like a child to the Heart of Jesus and say … “You can do all things.” … I keep silent, because I know that Jesus Himself will intervene in the matter, and … instead of tormenting myself, I use that time to love Him. (1033)
Forty-eight times in St. Faustina's Diary, Jesus tells St. Faustina not to be afraid. That's right. We counted.
