While she was alive, she was adamant that nobody other then her spiritual directors and her religious superiors should read or even know about her diaries. But from 1934 until her death in 1938, she dedicated all of her spare time to writing the words, advice and instructions of Jesus regarding the His new devotion, as well as her own spiritual insights and councils. It was only after 1934 did she really begin to take seriously the importance of writing the events of her life. This is why, between 1927-1934, we have large gaps in time where we have no record of her daily life. Sopocko of what she had done, he demanded that she re-write the entire document from memory, which she duly did. We also know that the contents of the diary and the supernatural events in her life caused her tremendous personal anguish, because one day she decided to burn her diaries. Of course this was completely acceptable to Jesus as He had instructed her on several occasions to be obedient to her spiritual director. At one point, she refused to fulfil a request of Jesus, because her spiritual director would not grant her permission to carry out His instructions. Faustina tremendous suffering as she often, understandably, doubted if she should trust these supernatural occurrences. The reason the instructions of her spiritual directors were more important to her than the instructions of Jesus was because the profound supernatural events in her life, such as inner-locutions, divine inspirations and visions, caused St. Faustina always sought silence and hugely limited the amount of talking she engaged in and even objected to the writing of unnecessary personal letters, so write a diary of this nature would have been totally against her natural inclinations. She records in her diary, that if she had not been instructed to do so, both by Jesus, but more importantly, by her spiritual directors, she would have not done it. Andrasz, to write the events of her life in her diary. Faustina is that she was instructed by Jesus and her spiritual directors, Fr. One of the first points to note regarding the Diary of St. Faustina regarding His Mercy and the new devotion to His Divine Mercy, which He willed to be established in His Church.
It is this point that makes it the second most important book in the world, because it contains the actual words of Jesus spoken to St.
But the true purpose of the Diary was to document the instructions of Jesus as to how He desired the new devotion to His Divine Mercy to be formed. It reveals the supremely holy and wise personality of the author, not so much in what she said about herself, but in her honest reaction to the ordinary and divine moments of her everyday life. Faustina, as she experienced the profound supernatural events that shaped her entire life. It is a record of the inspiring life of St. Faustina is the second most important book in the world, after the Bible.
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