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43 Sr. Josefa Menendez, The Way of Divine Love , 208. 44 Belanger, Autobiography , 259. 45 The Second Vatican Council defined saving “faith” as “an obedience in which man entrusts his entire self freely to God, offering ‘the complete submission of intellect and will to God who reveals.’” On Divine Revelation , no 5. Inner quote is fromVatican I, DS 3008. 46 Pope John Paul II, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Salvifici Dolores) (Boston: St. Paul Books and Media, 1984), no 24, p. 37. We should link this scriptural passage also with the teachings about the inclusive priesthood of Christ in the Book of Hebrews. As the Great High Priest, Jesus always carries with Him, in His own mystical Body, the People of God, as He pleads for us before the throne of God in Heaven, just as the Jewish High Priest entered the Holy of Holies every year on behalf of the Chosen People, gaining for them the Lord’s bless- ing or curse. See Albert Vanhoye, S.J., “The Structure and Message of the Epistle to the Hebrews” in Subsidia Biblica , vol. 12 (Roma: Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1989), 59, 69-70. 47 Ibid ., nos. 26-27, p. 46-47. 48 St. Margaret Mary, Autobiography , no. 46, p. 60. 49 St. Faustina, Diary , no. 604, p. 254 (my emphasis). 50 Ibid. , nos. 323-324, p. 147, and no. 67, p. 34 (my emphasis). Cf. Bl. Dina Belanger, Autobiography , 258: I have no words to express my thirst for suffering, it is infi- nite…. Love is the unique motive of my desires; I would have Jesus crucified reproduced inme that I may resemble Himmore closely, and then by Him, apply to souls His inexhaustible mer- its. None the less, I submit my boundless desires to His good pleasure. As He wills, no more, no less!. 51 Sr. Josefa Menendez, The Way of Divine Love , 40. 52 Bl. Dina Bélanger, Canticle of Love , 201. 53 Josemaría Escrivá, The Way (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1985), no. 182, p. 57-58. 54 St. Faustina, Diary , no. 487, p. 211. 55 Ibid. , no. 1625, p. 525. 56 St. Alphonsus, The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ , 298. 57 Sr. Josefa Menendez, The Way of Divine Love , 33. 58 Ibid. , 7. 97 Saint Faustina and Devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ