{"id":21331,"date":"2024-05-18T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grupodeoracioneintercesion.com\/?p=21331"},"modified":"2024-05-18T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:04:53","slug":"hour-of-mercy-300-p-m-saturday-may-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grupodeoracioneintercesion.com\/en\/hour-of-mercy-300-p-m-saturday-may-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour of Mercy: 3:00 p.m, Saturday, May 18, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Saturday, May 18, 2024<\/h4>\n

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

(153) +Once I was asked to pray for a certain soul. I decided at once to make a novena to the Merciful Lord to which I added a mortification; namely, that I would wear chains86 on both legs throughout Holy Mass. I had been doing this already for three days when I went to confession and told my spiritual director that I had undertaken this mortification, presuming permission to do so. I had thought he would not object, but I heard the contrary; that is, that I should do nothing without permission. O my Jesus, so it was willfulness again! But my falls do not discourage me; I know very well that I am misery [itself]. It was because of the condition of my health that I did not receive this permission, and my spiritual director was surprised that I had been allowing myself greater mortifications without his permission. I asked pardon for my self-willfulness, or rather for having presumed permission, and I asked him to change this mortification for another one.
\nMy spiritual director replaced it with an interior mortification; namely, throughout Holy Mass I was to meditate on why the Lord Jesus had submitted to being baptized. The meditation was no mortifications for me, for thinking about God is a delight and not\u00a0mortification; but there was a mortification of the will in that I was not doing [simply] what I like, but what I was told to do, and it is in this that interior mortification consists. When I left the confessional and started to recite my penance, I heard these words:\u00a0I have granted the grace you asked for on behalf of that soul, but not because of the mortification you chose for yourself, but because of the act of complete obedience to My representative did I grant grace to that soul for whom you interceded and begged mercy. Know that when you mortify your own self-will, then Mine reigns within you\u00a0<\/b>(Saint Mar\u00eda Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary, 364-365.).<\/span><\/p>\n

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