Reflect and Comment on the Reading
“1275 My Secretary, write that I am more generous toward sinners than toward the just. It was for their sake that I came down from heaven; it was for their sake that My Blood was spilled. Let them not fear to approach Me; they are most in need of My mercy.
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“1276 September 16, 1937. I wanted very much to make a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament today, but God’s will was otherwise. At eight o’clock I was seized with such violent pains that (31) I had to go to bed at once. I was convulsed with pain for three hours; that is, until eleven o’clock at night. No medicine had any effect on me, and whatever I swallowed I threw up. At times, the pains caused me to lose consciousness. Jesus had me realize that in this way I took part in His Agony in the Garden, and that He Himself allowed these sufferings in order to offer reparation to God for the souls murdered in the wombs of wicked mothers. I have gone through these sufferings three times now. They always start at eight o’clock in the evening and last until eleven. No medicine can lessen these sufferings. When eleven o’clock comes, they cease by themselves, and I fall asleep at that moment. The following day, I feel very weak.
This happened to me for the first time when I was at the sanatorium. The doctors couldn’t get to the bottom of it, and no injection or medicine helped me at all (32) nor did I myself have any idea of what the sufferings were about. I told the doctor that never before in my life had I experienced such sufferings, and he declared he did not know what sort of pains they are. But now I understand the nature of these pains, because the Lord Himself has made this known to me…. Yet when I think that I may perhaps suffer in this way again, I tremble. But I don’t know whether I’ll ever again suffer in this way; I leave that to God. What it pleases God to send, I will accept with submission and love. If only I could save even one soul from murder by means of these sufferings!”
Excerpt FromDiary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My SoulSaint Maria Faustina Kowalska
In 1275 Jesus tells Faustina that He is more generous to sinners than to the just. In 1276 Faustina suffers immensely to offer reparation for the “wicked mothers whose babies are murdered in the womb.” A thought — Are those sufferings of Faustina all the labor pains that should have brought these babies to life? It was His Agony in the Garden that He told Faustina she was participating in, NOT His Suffering and Death. It is the anticipatory pain/grief for the babies who His Agony in the Garden was for NOT the pain of Crucifixion, but rather the anticipation of it. I don’t know how this fits, but could it be that because He knows all things, He knows just who will be murdered and grieves for them BEFORE the murders? Does Faustina experience the childbirth pains that their mothers would have experienced? Just a thought, and why? Genesis tells us after the fall that we are to bring forth children in pain — to labor. Do the normal labor pains of childbirth offered to God contribute to the salvation of the world? Since in 1275 He is more generous to sinners than to the just, oh how great must be His generosity (MERCY) to these mothers.
Bonnie
1276: St. Faustina experienced excruciating pain for three hours a number of times “for the price of others’ souls,” as she came to understand. That mystery, again, of how the Lord allows us somehow to partake in His act of redemption! “…He Himself allowed these sufferings in order to offer reparation to God for the souls murdered in the wombs…” St. Faustina knew that this suffering was directly related to abortion. This is 1937! What would she think now with over 50,000,000 babies aborted in the U.S. alone since 1973. Or was this maybe a premonition of what was to come?
Gene.
I have felt since I started to read the Diary that there is a reason the interest in St. Faustina’s Diary and Divine Mercy has become so necessary for us to take very seriously at this time. So much what she has written seems to fit in for the serious moral problems that are a plague to our society and the world in this era. Abortion has to be the issue! It is a scourge to our society.
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How much more prevalent this problem of abortion is in our time & in this country. Years ago, who would of ever thought we would have gotten to this point. The degree of serious sin is obvious just reading these paragraphs. Until this terrible sin stops, our prayers can never stop in hopes of eradicating this horrific evil. I know how sad just reading this makes me feel, I can only imagine the depths of sadness Our Lord must feel, as it is His Gift!!!
God bless, love, Colette