Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy 39) Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy. My daughter, write about My mercy towards tormented souls. Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on the contrary, I justify him in My unfathomable and inscrutable mercy. Write: before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice….. Faustina's Diary 1146 As I age, if there is a stumbling block to my faith; it would be the conviction that God is the unique Father of each individual. It is much easier to believe that God sees humankind but does not see each of us as separate, loved and sought after. How is the possible? Well as far as we experience life, I would say it is not possible. Yet it happens. God is other, yet not less than we are but something ‘wholly other’ and incomprehensible to the human mind. Even when thinking of ‘Infinite Love’, it goes way beyond anything we can truly understand and the same goes for mercy. Religion gets really crazy and sick, I believe, when we think we have it figured out how God loves and relates to us. In the Incarnation, the “Word became flesh” to give us an inklings of God, his love, compassion and mercy. Jesus has also revealed how important our everyday choices are and how dreadful the gift of free will is because it can lead us from the love of God. People don’t want to hear that, or if believed, it is something that is put on others sans themselves. Keeping their selves exempt from the human enterprise of choosing to allow grace to create us, rather than we creating ourselves. Self-Creation apart from God’s grace is a path that leads to becoming totally self- absorbed to the exclusion of all others. For me this is not comforting at all, but if truly understood could lead to terror….such is the price of freedom. Yet we are told not to fear, because God, the Infinite, the wholly other, the Incomprehensible, has revealed to us that his true nature is ‘Love’ and “Mercy’. I still don’t fully understand it, yet my depth of my trust in God’s love for me and all others deepens as I age. So when I pray the “Our Father”, I am united to everyone, past, present and future, for when said prayerfully, it is addressed to “Our Father”, not my father. God is not owned by anyone no matter the depth of their faith or understanding.
"...I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings" (Saint Faustina Diary 153).
For me, what is important is what road that I take.......very few people spend their lives dancing and enjoying themselves, well, I have not seen too many ;-). The mercy chaplet is for the whole world, for the dying, I say that prayer knowing that judgment of God is always right, true, and the soul who receives it, agrees. Thank God we do not judge each other ;-). God truly sees us, that is why he could heal the woman caught in adultery with a look, while the religious wanted to stone the woman......in being seen, she was healed and I am sure it changed her on a profound level. If we Christians could see with the eyes of Christ, I wonder what the world would be like now......we have failed in many ways. Peace Mark
I don't believe that this is a simple literal lesson. I think we can assume that the 'dancing' and 'enjoying themselves' can be both literal and figurative. 'Doing one's own thing' without reference to God might be an interpretation and there are plenty of those people around. Note that the greatest sinners are promised mercy when they sincerely seek it which presupposes contrition and great contrition from great sinners. One of the spiritual works of mercy is 'admonishing the sinner'- a forgotten one in these days and those responsible for doing so and who fail to do it will clearly bear a heavy responsibility.
Take note that St Faustina quotes Our Lord's promising Mercy to 'tormented souls'. This torment indicates a conflict of conscience, a struggle with a sin that the soul presumably wishes to overcome. It hardly includes those who very militantly wish to normalise their sins. It is one thing to sin, another to deny the sinfulness. There have always been sinners. What has become rampant in the modern age is this infernal movement to abolish the sinfulness of what are abominations and to condemn as phobics those who disagree. The new sin being propagated by these devils is the opposition to sin. It is difficult to see those who possess this mindset avoiding Justice.
Yesterday as I said the rosary and as I walked around a paddock, I was thinking of the sorrowful mysteries and I had a thought, that I've never had before. The thought went something like this.... I am not from Jewish stock [as far as I know], so at the time of Our Lords earthly life, most of my ancestors would have been pagan or gentiles! [Probably akin to the majority of all Christians living today!] I then thought well there is about 3 to 4 generations in a 100 year period, so at the most there has been about only 80 generations that seperate me from being alive when God Became Incarnate of the Most Blessed Virgin! I then thought........ I carry the DNA of all those that have gone before me and I hope that during the 33 years of Our Lords life on earth, my pagan and gentile ancestors who lived at that time in various parts of the world, were people of good will! And even though they did not know about the one true God [as they were not Jewish] hopefully they lived lives pleasing to the Sacred Heart and in some way were able to comfort Our Lord Jesus. As I prayed I said in my heart........During your utter agony Lord and at the hour of your death, the veil of the temple split, an earthquake rocked the world, the sun was eclipsed, many dead people rose from the dead, and in that most holiest of hours in time and in eternity, the poor pagans and gentiles throughout the world, surely would have being given a glimpse, a small knowing, a hint of the sacred and solemn in this singularly stupendous hour of mankinds history and Please God they would have bowed their heads at that moment, [for even the rocks and the sun knew!] Strange thoughts! I know! I said prayers for them and I will continue to pray for them, maybe some are still in purgatory!
Yes to be a sinner, which we all are, is different from living in sin, a state where the conscience is put to sleep or perhaps killed.... Peace Mark
I tell people that our lives are very important, and our choices are also deeply significant. We arr either moving towards God or away from Eternal Love....only God knows who they are..... Peace Mark
Not strange at all, we carry our ancestors with us I believe, with God there is no time, it is all 'now'. I pray for 'all' as well. God's love is infinite, ours is not. Peace Mark
I am beginning to think like that also, Josephite. When I see a picture of the Holy Eucharist in a Monstrance, my soul compels me to bow and pay Him homage. We are living in the Eternal Now, where space and time do not constrain us. My soul moves to the chapel where He is present, no matter how long ago the picture was taken.
This is, to me , the very favourite thing about the Divine Mercy Message. The the Greater the Sinner, the more the can call on Mercy.
