Wednesday, June 12 : Saint Faustina Kowalska

The soul awaiting the coming of the Lord : I do not know, O Lord, at what hour you will come.
And so I keep constant watch and listen
As your chosen bride.
Knowing that you like to come unexpected.
Yet a pure heart will sense you from afar, O Lord. I wait for you, Lord, in calm and silence,
With great longing in my heart
And with invincible desire.
I feel that my love for you is changing into fire,
And that it will rise up to heaven like a flame at life’s end,
And then all my wishes will be fulfilled. Come then at last, my most sweet Lord
And take my thirsting heart
There, to your home in the lofty regions of heaven,
Where your eternal life reigns everlasting. Life on this earth is but an agony
Since my heart feels it is created for the heights.
The lowlands of this life hold no interest for it
For my homeland is in heaven – this I firmly believe.

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