[Lent] A Magnificent Building

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Full text of St. Faustina's Diary.

Reflection question: There is a fine line between being aware of our sins and being swallowed up by scrupulosity. Do you think you tend toward not seeing your sins enough or feeling trapped in seeing sins everywhere even where they might not be?

Excerpt from St. Faustina's Diary for today (112):

A magnificent building will never rise if we reject the insignificant bricks. God demands great purity of certain souls, and so He gives them a deeper knowledge of their own misery. Illuminated by light from on high, the soul can better know what pleases God and what does not. Sin depends upon de degree of knowledge and light that exists within the soul. The same is true of imperfections.

 

Although the soul knows that it is only sin in the strict sense of the term which pertains to the sacrament of penance, yet these petty things are of great importance to a soul which is tending to sanctity, and the confessor must not treat them lightly. The patience and kindness of the confessor open the way to the innermost secrets of the soul. The soul, unconsciously as it were, reveals its abysmal depth and feels stronger and more resistant; it fights with greater courage and tries to do things better because it knows it must vie an account of them.