Sunday, April 3 : Saint Faustina Kowalska

O, my Jesus, in thanksgiving for your many graces, I offer you my body and soul, intellect and will, and all the sentiments of my heart. Through the vows I have offered myself entirely to you; I have, then, nothing more I could offer you. Jesus said to me; ‘My daughter, you have not offered me that which is really yours.’ I probed deeply into myself and found that I love God with all the faculties of my soul, and unable to see what it was that I had not yet given to the Lord, I asked: ‘Jesus, tell me what it is, and I will give it to you at once with a generous heart.’ Jesus said to me with kindness: ‘Daughter, give me your misery, because it is your exclusive property.’ At that moment a ray of light illumined my soul, and I saw the whole abyss of my misery. In that same moment I nestled close to the Most Sacred Heart with so much trust that even if I had all the sins of all the damned weighing on my conscience, I would not have doubted God’s mercy but, with a heart crushed to dust, I would have thrown myself into the abyss of your mercy. I believe, O Jesus, that you would not reject me, but would absolve me through the hand of your representative. You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O fount of life, unfathomable divine mercy, envelop the whole world and empty yourself out upon us.
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team