Holy Redeemer
St. Faustina’s advice on Praying
I recall that I have received most light during adoration which I
made lying prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament for half an
hour every day throughout Lent. During that time I came to
know myself and God more profoundly. And yet, even though I
had the superiors’ permission to do so, I encountered many
obstacles to praying in such a way.
Let the soul be aware that, in order to pray and persevere in
prayer, one must arm oneself with patience and cope bravely
with exterior and interior difficulties.
The interior difficulties are discouragement, dryness,
heaviness of spirit and temptations. The exterior difficulties are
human respect and time; one must observe the time set apart
for prayer.
This has been my personal experience because, when I did
not pray at the time assigned for prayer, later on I could not do
it because of my duties; or if I did manage to do so, this was
only with great difficulty, because my thoughts kept wandering
off to my duties.
I also experienced this difficulty: when a soul has prayed well
and left prayer in a state of profound interior recollection,
others resist its recollection; and so, the soul must be patient
to persevere in prayer. It often happened to me that when my
soul was more deeply immersed in God, and I had derived
greater fruit from prayer, and God’s presence accompanied me
during the day, and at work there was more recollection and
greater precision and effort at my duty, this was precisely when
I received the most rebukes for being negligent in my duty and
indifferent to everything; because less recollected souls want
others to be like them, for they are a constant source of
remorse to them.
(Diary 147
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