Saint Faustina's Diary: By Faith, Not by Formula - When God Speaks Through Unlikely Vessels (Ep 26)

Saint Faustina's Diary: By Faith, Not by Formula - When God Speaks Through Unlikely Vessels (Ep 26) #@thedailyspeakingtree
132 ( 62 ) I must again mention that there are some confessors who
seem to be true spiritual fathers, but only as long as things go well.
When the soul finds itself in greater need, they become perplexed,
and either cannot or will not understand the soul. They try to get rid
of the person as soon as possible. But if the soul is humble, it will
always profit in some little way or other. God Himself will sometimes
cast a shaft of light into the depths of the soul, because of its humility
and faith. The confessor will sometimes say something he had never
intended to say, without even realizing it himself. Oh, let the soul
believe that such words are the words of the Lord Himself! Though
indeed we ought to believe that every word spoken in the
confessional is God’s, what I have referred to above is something that
comes directly from God. And the soul perceives that the priest is not
master of himself, that he is saying things that he would rather not
say. This is how God rewards faith.
I have experienced this many times myself. A certain very learned
and respected priest [probably Father Wilkowski, the sisters’
confessor at Plock], to whom I sometimes happened to go to
confession, was always severe and opposed to these matters [which I
brought up to him]. But on one occasion he replied to me, “Bear in
mind, Sister, that if God is asking this of you, you should not oppose
Him. God sometimes wants to be praised in just this way. Be at
peace; what God has started, He will finish. But I say this to you:
faithfulness to God and humility. And once again: humility. Bear well
in mind what I have told you today.” I was delighted, and I thought
that perhaps this priest had understood me. But it so turned out that
I never went to confession to him again.
133 + Once, one of the older Mothers [probably Mother Jane 43 ]
summoned me, and it was as if fiery bolts from the blue were coming
down upon me head, so much so that I could not even discover what
it was all about. But after a while I understood that it was about a
matter over which I had no control whatsoever. She said to me, “Get
it out of your head, Sister, that the Lord Jesus might be communing
in such an intimate way with such a miserable bundle of
imperfections as you! Bear in mind that it is only with holy souls that
the Lord Jesus communes in this way!” I acknowledged that she was
right, because I am indeed a wretched person, but still I trust in
God’s mercy. When I met the Lord I humbled myself and said,
“Jesus, it seems that You do not associate intimately with such
wretched people as I.” Be at peace, My daughter, it is precisely
through such misery that I
want to show the power of My mercy. I understood that this Mother
had merely wanted to subject me to a [salutary] humiliation.
134 (63) + O my Jesus, You have tested me so many times in this
short life of mine! I have come to understand so many things, and
even such that now amaze me. Oh, how good it is to abandon oneself
totally to God and to give Him full freedom to act in one’s soul!
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