What is obedience?
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).
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Turn to any page of St. Faustina’s Diary, and you find spiritual gems. Marc Massery, a staff writer for the Marian Fathers at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, reflects on one such gem:
Are you ever afraid for your own physical safety? Turn to any page of St. Faustina's Diary, and you'll find spiritual gems. Like this one:
My daughter, all your miseries have been consumed in the flame of My love, like a little twig thrown into a roaring fire.
