St. Faustina’s Diary is a sweet, rather simple Catholic mystic piece of exceptional worth and mirth. Here is an extraordinarily rich mystical experience. She avows in her Diary, “My Jesus, you know that from my earliest years, I have wanted to love you with a love so great that there would be no soul who has hither to loved you so.(1372)
The Diary reveals the depths of her spiritual life. Her soul’s union with God is rather unparalleled. God kept intimate company with her soul. She strove hard in her “ascent to the peak of Christian perfection. The Lord endowed her with great graces of contemplation with a deep knowledge of the mystery of the mercy of God with visions, revelations, the hidden stigmata, with the gift of prophecy and reading into human souls and also with the rare gift of mystical espouses. In spite of all these she writes, “Neither graces, nor the revelations, nor raptures nor gifts granted to a soul make it perfect but rather the intimate union of the soul with God. My sanctity and perfection are based on the close union of my wil with the will of God.” (1107)
The intimate communion of the human soul with God, the union of the human will with the Divine will, make it perfect. This a great revelation to those who are baffled with the concept of mysticism. For most it is a hard nut to crack. But it is as simple as the celebrated words of our Blessed Mother during the wedding at Cana, “Do whatever He tells you.” (Jn. 2:5)
It is for this that St. Augustine ever yearned: “O, God, you created me for yourself. My heart is restless until it rests in you. It is the same thing that the Book of Revelation reports, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.” (Rev. 3:20)
