{"id":20984,"date":"2024-04-01T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grupodeoracioneintercesion.com\/?p=20984"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:32:12","slug":"hour-of-mercy-300-p-m-monday-april-01-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grupodeoracioneintercesion.com\/en\/hour-of-mercy-300-p-m-monday-april-01-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour of Mercy: 3:00 p.m, Monday, April 01, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Reflections, supplications and prayers<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Monday, April 01, 2024<\/h4>\n

1. Reflection:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Once I was at a dance [probably in Lodz] with one of my sisters. While everybody was having a good time, my soul was experiencing deep torments. As I began to dance, I suddenly saw Jesus at my side, Jesus racked with pain, stripped of His clothing, all covered with wounds, who spoke these words to me: How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting Me off? At that moment the charming music stopped, [and] the company I was with vanished from my sight; there remained Jesus and I. I took a seat by my dear sister pretending to have a headache in order to cover up what took place in my soul. After a while I slipped out unnoticed, leaving my sister and all my companions behind and made my way to the Cathedral of Saint Stanislaus Kostka. It was almost twilight; there were only a few people in the cathedral. Paying no attention to what was happening around me, I fell prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament and begged the Lord to be good enough to give me to understand what I should do next. Then I heard these words: Go at once to Warsaw; you will enter a convent there. I rose from prayer, came home, and took care of things that needed to be settled. As best I could, I confided to my sister what took place within my soul. I told her to say good-bye to our parents, and thus, in my one dress, with no other belonging, I arrived in Warsaw. When I got off the train and saw that all were going their separate ways, I was overcome with fear. What am I to do? To whom should I turn, as I know no one? So I said to the Mother of Go, \u201cMary, lead me, guide me.\u201d Immediately I heard these words within me telling me to leave the town and go to a certain nearby village where I would find a safe lodging for the night. I did so and found, in fact, that everything was just as the Mother of God told me. Very early the next day, I rode back into the city and entered the first church I saw [St. James Church at Grojecka Street in Ochota, a suburb of Warsaw]. There I began to pray to know further the will of God. Holy Masses were being celebrated one after another. During one of them I heard the words: Go to that priest [Father James Dabrowski, pastor of St. James\u201f Parish] and tell him everything; he will tell you what to do next. After the Mass I went to the sacristy. (5) I told the priest all that had taken place in my soul, and I asked him to advise me where to take the veil, in which religious order. The priest was surprised at first, but told me to have strong confidence that God would provide for my future. \u201cFor the time being,\u201d he said, \u201cI shall send you to a pious lady [Aldona Lipszycowa4 ] with whom you will stay until you enter a convent.\u201d When I called on this lady, she received me very kindly. During the time I stayed with her, I was looking for a convent, but at whatever convent door I knocked, I was turned away. Sorrow gripped my heart, and I said to the Lord Jesus, \u201cHelp me; don\u201ft leave me alone.\u201d At last I knocked on our door. When Mother Superior, the present Mother General Michael6 came out to meet me, she told me, after a short conversation, to go to the Lord of the house and ask whether He would accept me. I understood at once that I was to ask this of the Lord Jesus. With great joy, I went to the chapel and asked Jesus: \u201cLord of this house, do You accept me? This is how one of these sisters told me to put the question to You.\u201d Immediately I heard this voice: I do accept; you are in My Heart. When I returned from the chapel, Mother Superior asked first of all, \u201cWell, has the Lord accepted you?\u201d In answered, \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cIf the Lord has accepted, [she said] then I also will accept.\u201d This is how I was accepted. However, for many reasons I still had to remain in the world for more than a year with that pious woman [Aldona Lipszycowa], but I did not go back to my own home. At that time I had to struggle with many difficulties, but God was lavish with His graces. An ever greater longing for God began to take hold of me. The lady, pious as she was, did not understand the happiness of religious life and, in her kindheartedness began to make other plans for my future life. And yet, I sensed that I had a heart so big that nothing would be capable of filling it. And so I turned with all the longing of my soul to God\u00a0(Saint Mar\u00eda Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary, Diary, 9 \u2013 15<\/span>)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Supplications:<\/strong><\/h4>\n