Pillars of Fire In My Soul

My Jesus, You see that Your holy will is everything to me. It makes no difference to me what You do with me ... O will of God, You are the nourishment and delight of my soul! When I submit to the holy will of my God a deep peace floods my soul (Diary, 952). Sweeter to me are the torments, sufferings, persecutions and all manner of adversities by divine will, than success, praise and esteem by my own will (Diary, 678). Her love for God was inflamed during her meditations and whenever she visited the Blessed Sacrament. How often her heart would take flight up toward God during her manual occupations! This love for God also became more deeply rooted in her by means of numerous trials and sufferings. The Holy Spirit inflamed Sister Faustina and embraced her soul with God’s mysterious presence, which permeated her being through and through, even bestowing upon her heavenly visions — sublime ones at that! In confirmation of this action of the Holy Spirit, let us mention one of her heavenly visitations. This particular one took place on the Feast of the Ascension in 1937. Since early this morning, my soul has been touched by God. After I received Holy Communion I communed with the heavenly Father. My soul was drawn into the very glowing center of love. I understood that no exterior works could stand comparison with pure love of God ... I saw the joy of the Incarnate Word and I was immersed in the Divine Trinity. When I came to myself, longing filled my soul and I yearned to be united with God. Such tremen- dous love for the heavenly Father enveloped me that I call this day an uninterrupted ecstasy of love. The whole uni- verse seemed to me like a tiny drop in comparison with God. There is no greater happiness than when God gives me to know interiorly that every beat of my heart is pleasing to Him, and when He shows me that He loves me in a special way (Diary, 1121). 36 Pillars of Fire in My Soul