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October 1st, 2008   -  Feast of the Little Flower

(At Adoration, before the Holy Blessed Sacrament)

The graces you have been given are not for you alone.  That is why I move you more to pray for souls, the souls of friends, relations, people you have worked with, dealt with, people who have crossed your path or whose path you have crossed, souls who in some way have left a mark on your memory.  The mark is there so that you will pray for them.  But pray for them in this new way I teach you now.

My Spirit resides in each of these souls.  Unite yourself with My Spirit in them and beg My Spirit to pray for them, with groanings, as St. Paul said, asking for what they themselves do not know to ask for or even care to ask for.  Let your prayer for them become their prayer as it becomes My prayer in them, for them, to the glory and honor of My Father, that His Justice may be satisfied even as He pours His Mercy into these souls, as you pray for them, in this way.

Do you see?  I am showing you how your prayer for souls you have known, and in some cases loved, can become My prayer, a prayer that the Father of Mercy cannot refuse.

--contributed by a servant diarist