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Mon, 15 IX 86, 11:30am

+Asceticism also consists in willingly undertaking difficult and unpleasant things and in omitting pleasant things, which have no value other than self-indulgence.

 It is about a rational, modest life, filled with serving Me and My children.

 - Conversations with You are different now. Formerly there was much consolation, now there is more instruction.

+You know Me better and you know about My Love. You're sure of it. So I don't have to talk about it all the time. Since you want to serve Me, I advise you how to do it.

+ Friends who are sure of their love for each other, don't need to talk about it all the time, because everything they do and think shows their commitment to each other.

 Your staying with Me should be full of trust and peace, also when difficult moments come: responsible tasks, burdensome people or a feeling of emptiness and loneliness.

 I always am. And I always provide you with love, care and help. You must have such confidence, it will protect and support you. Certainty is the mustard seed of faith and is My strength in you.

 Dramatic tensions are unnecessary. Everything should be calm and imbued with trust: both joy and suffering.

 Suffering that serves to build mutual love is joy.

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Mon, 15 IX 86, 8:30am

- My patron Faustina, pray for me...

 • God has allowed me to talk to you. It's His grace. Thank Him for that. I intercede for you all the time and I watch over you. I'm happy to help you, and I'm grateful that you want it.

 Every one of us here could do a lot if people asked for it.

 - What are you doing?

 • We enjoy our Lord and care for you.

 - Pray with me and adore the Lord.

 • I do it all the time.

 You can do the same to your mother.

 - I didn't call you mom, because I thought maybe it bothered you there.

 • Just the opposite - I want to help you. I am often with you. It's easier for me when you talk to me.

 Be obedient to the Lord in everything.

 His Word is the truth that is. What He says, exists. His Word is not a sound, but a reality that exists outside of time. It has no problem to keep its promise in the future. Everything He ever said became a reality that is and will always be.

 Therefore, His words must be treated differently from the words of a man. The word of man is like a project. His Word - an eternal reality.

 His Words must therefore not only be trusted and believed, but simply accepted as reality and be known. His Word is a far more perfect means of knowing the Truth than the mediation of the senses. The senses show only the material. His Word the whole Truth going far beyond the possibilities of the mind and imagination.

 If He wills, He will also give the grace of understanding more deeply with the soul than with the mind.

 If you ask and you need it - you will receive such knowledge of the Truth from God.

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Sat, 13 IX 86, 12am

+Don't feel lonely, because you're never that way. I live and stay with you still and I will never leave you.

 I told you you should be supportive of people. I am sending you so that you may testify of Me.

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Thu, 11 IX 86, 6:40am

+ I want to see great and lasting love in you. I place it in your heart and I want you to care for its growth as zealously as I care for you.

 Be like Me towards the people I send you: always loving, understanding, infinitely patient, ready to do anything to save and enrich their souls.

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Wed, 10 IX 86, 10:30pm

- I'm sorry for those little lies in the taxi.

+Be careful. If you don't want to give real answers to sometimes nosy questions - steer the conversation so that there are none or don't answer. Try to completely exclude telling untruths. In small and indifferent matters too.

 You know who the father of lies is. Don't help him.