People sometimes talk about Chinese bamboo, which - when you sow it into the ground - it seems to be wasted because nothing happens. For several years it creates a strong root system. After a few years, there comes a moment when it shoots up and can grow up to twenty meters in a year. It's taking root, this kind of laborious stuff that you can't see, you can't see, you can't see. Nothing seems to be happening here, and then we see the fruits. So many marriages fall apart because they are not well prepared to enter into such a relationship of true, mature love that dying will happen here. But all this is beautiful, good, flowing from love and leading to greater love. The more we go in this way of dying, the tastier life is. Tastier love, although it costs. Now I am able to break away from this mess, because you showed me my dignity, which is unchangeable. You didn't change your mind about me, even though I kept doing bad things. I see that I am not a bad person. I do bad things, but I can choose not to do them. In your attitude I see that I can choose not to do them. Many people don't want to come to church because we keep setting conditions. And this is where the misunderstood Pope Francis comes from, shouting in Lisbon: "todos, todos, todos." Like everyone else. We don't understand that this is not the point. That it's not about accepting sin, accepting mediocrity, but everyone has to come, "all come to me" and you will experience this love, and then you will decide whether you will stay or go. "Zeszyty full of love", episode 53. Hello, dear ones, very warmly. Today we have a special guest with us, Father Bishop Artur Ważny. We welcome you very, very warmly. God bless you, I bow. Yes, Father is the first bishop in our series, which is a great distinction for us and we are very happy that on a day off... Yes, it is also worth noting, dear ones, that when the bishop is resting, he comes to work here and there. There will also be a meeting today at our place and on Krakow radio. Father... I will say this to the bishop. I have already received permission, but even my heart tells me that I feel best with this form. And your episcopal call is also very... fatherly. Yes, "Patris corde" - "with a father's heart". It's from Joseph. And where did this even come from? Why like this? That was the day when I heard from the nuncio that I would be a bishop. And on that day the Pope issued the document "Patris corde", so it was very natural. Beautiful, beautiful. And first, you were a bishop in the Tarnów diocese. Yes, an auxiliary bishop. And now in Tarnowska. Sorry, in Sosnowiecka. Yes. Yes, I remember, because we had met a little earlier and a lot of news came when we took over this new diocese. So full of hope for this diocese and such warm support for the Father. Because Father was given a difficult diocese, what can I say. I don't think that's necessarily how you should look at it. When you're there, you look at it differently. But I won't talk, because maybe they would support me less. So please continue to pray very much, because prayer is always very important. I know that... You also care very much about this, that this diocese is, above all, very prayed for, right? Yes. If I may say, I am very happy, because in these days the idea, the dream of establishing a monastery of Carmelite nuns in the diocese was finalized. And so it happened. Wonderfully. Yes, we are very happy. This is the foundation for this depth to live somewhere and the depth of the relationship with God that emanates from everyone. It is also very clear from the "Diary" how Jesus tells Sister Faustina that "where you are, where your sisters are, it will radiate to the whole area." Father, my father was a long-time... When I read a little about my father on the Internet, if I wanted to list the entire story up to this point, there are many, many different realities in the Church in which you were, but the ones that moved me the most are the fact that you have been an academic pastor for many years. And I didn't know that you were also a diocesan exorcist. Yes, it has been over a dozen years, although today it may even bother some people, because we see that for this world it is a completely alien world and even exposed to ridicule. But we know what we know and we know why Christ came into the world to destroy the works of the devil. And He actually works in different ways. But I also perceive it as a great service of love, which caused God to shape me to a large extent. So I'm grateful for that too. For these years. And when we met, for me he was, above all, the Father of the new evangelization and still is. In the Episcopal Commission, this is your father's "plot". Yes, this is the basic work that has been entrusted to me. And I must say that Cardinal Gregory "framed" me for this, so I thank him very much for that. Best regards. Yes, and now you often appear in the media in the context of such scandals, various scandals in the Church, to express yourself with this fatherly heart and somehow... somehow present this situation in yourself, from your heart, to people, show it. I don't even know how to say it because it's just so hard. Yes, I think this stage is a bit behind us. Besides, we seem to have consciously blocked most of the interviews. I say "blocked" because there are several people who are somehow with me and we are wondering how to communicate what is happening in our diocese for internal and external benefit. It's not just about some Piarism, but mainly about spiritual good, this is our basic goal. So at the beginning there were a lot of different meetings, interviews and conversations. It was also important for me, because I listened to the questions that told me what people were asking, what they were living, what they were thinking about. And that was so important to me. Each interview brought something new. But now it has been entrusted to the commissions that have been established. And these two commissions work: one is more for the development of the diocese, and the other is to lead certain things towards healing, because this is also important. We cannot leave everything that was difficult without naming things, without seeing the contexts, standing in the truth, giving back to God, apologizing, making amends. And then we can move on. That's what I remembered... Another context of suffering, Rwanda - where there was terrible genocide. I remember when I had the opportunity to go there and the Pallottine fathers who were there said that after the genocide, the main spiritual initiative that was there was dozens, hundreds of retreats on the mercy of God. About mercy - both divine and human. Because such a process of spiritual healing was very necessary. Forgiveness, above all, so that they can function at all, continue to live on the same earth after all they have experienced and live side by side. These two tribes are so at odds. It's a bit like that now, somewhere, some connection has appeared, so that there will be many healing retreats in this Sosnowiec diocese . Yes. And it will happen. Somehow, such grace falls from heaven again. Of course, for many people this is something old, maybe past, no longer relevant, but I received it very kindly for this Year of Mercy. Once the Lord God gives us a year of grace, as one of the speakers said "Summer of love", this is how the Jubilee Year was formerly called - "Summer of love". This is a beautiful name. But the Marian Commission of the Polish Episcopate also proposed that the Icon of Jasna Góra be visited in our diocese. And initially, many were skeptical that these peregrinations were different and so on, that this form was already obsolete. But when we started talking to each other more deeply, and also looking at what was happening in other dioceses, it turned out that this event was at a different "level", as the young people say. It is simply a meeting with the Mother who comes and says: "They are not to blame." And this is like a slogan that lives somewhere in my heart, that we will experience certain things with Her. So every parish will experience retreats, I hope missions can. And we want to perform this healing with Her and ask God for mercy. And then we already have the next stage in our hearts - a diocesan synod, which will be a follow-up to what has been happening in the Universal Church. Of course, again, there are many different ideas, emotions and controversy that these are modernist ideas. We laugh about it because a synod was something normal at the beginning of the Church, very common. This is the way of life of the Church and... But we also want to introduce this style in parishes. I think that we should avoid the various events that have happened so far, because they often resulted from the clericalism that the Holy Father talks about, but also from the lack of cooperation with the laity. So that the laity should also be aware that the Church is theirs. So that they take responsibility for it and cooperate. But this also requires both courage and openness on the part of priests. We support. We support. That's what I'm counting on. Yes, I agreed to this meeting only so that the sisters... So that the sisters can support you too, listen, because there are only a handful of sisters, but there are thousands of thousands of you. So this is also a great invitation. And what the Father is talking about is this co-responsibility, this is our Church, this is simply our Church. So all of us, regardless of what state in the Church we represent. We pray. This is an invitation, because these are connected vessels, our smaller communities, the smallest ones, but also diocesan ones, or the Church in Poland and more broadly. We influence each other and that is beautiful. But also binding, yes. Because unfortunately we can also have a bad influence, which we sometimes feel. Yes. Bishop, this will not be the topic of today's episode. Today in the "Diary" we do not have such painful topics discussed in this context. There will be some other threads. I thought that we would need something from the dictionary, but I guess not. Father and I have already looked at it so much that there are no difficult, difficult words that would require explaining to you before reading. So I think we can just go reading. Yes, I am most curious myself. What will it do for us? These are always very creative meetings. It makes me very happy that someone, somewhere, prays with this text before recording it and seeks a deeper understanding of certain contents. But then the dynamics of the conversation and meeting itself highlights even more and... And I'm happy myself, so that's fine, let's go. I also remembered that I was supposed to point out that we were making such a fragment, we weren't reading everything in a row. We are making an excerpt, we will not read numbers 574, 575, 576, because they have already been read. We made a special Christmas episode and that's why we're skipping over these three numbers that are simply about Christmas. Yes. So today we read numbers 571 to 573. Skip. And then 577 to 586. Holy Spirit, we ask You to be with us, to give us inner concentration and the grace to understand more deeply the contents of the "Diary", so that they will also form us and bring us closer to God. Amen. Amen. Sister Faustina's "Diary". The second issue, numbers from 571 to 573, 577 to 586. O my Jesus, Eternal Truth, I am not afraid of anything, no hardships, no suffering. I am only afraid of one thing, and that is to offend you. My Jesus, I would rather not exist than make You sad. Jesus, You know that my love knows no one but You. My soul drowned in You. Oh, how great should be the zeal of every soul living in this monastery. If God wants to dwell with us, let each of us remember that if we, religious souls, do not appease God, who will appease Him? Let each burn as a pure offering of love before the majesty of God. But in order for it to be pleasing to God, let it be closely united with Jesus. With Him, in Him and through Him, we can only please God. December 21, 1935. At one point my confessor told me to see the house and see if it was the same one I saw in the vision. When I went with my confessor to see this house, or rather these ruins, at one glance I saw everything the same as I had seen in the vision. When I touched the boards that were nailed together like a door, at the same moment, like lightning, a certain power penetrated my soul, giving me unshakable certainty. I quickly left this place with my soul filled with joy. It seems to me as if some force was drawing me to this place. I am extremely happy to see the complete consistency of the things I saw in the vision. When the confessor talked about the arrangement of cells and other things, I learned everything that Jesus told me. I am extremely happy that God works through him, but I am not surprised at all that God gives him so much light, because in a pure and humble heart lives God, who is light itself, and all sufferings and adversities are intended to reveal the holiness of the soul. When I returned home, I went straight into our chapel to rest for a while. Suddenly I heard these words in my soul: "Do not be afraid of anything. I am with you. These matters are in My hand and I will carry them out according to My mercy, and nothing can oppose My will." At one point, when my confessor told me to say "Glory be to the Father" as a penance, it took me a lot of time. And sometimes I started and didn't finish because my spirit was united with God and I couldn't sustain myself. But sometimes I am involuntarily embraced by God's omnipotence and I am completely immersed in His love, and then I do not know what is happening around me. When I told my confessor that this short prayer sometimes takes up a lot of my time and that sometimes I cannot say it, my confessor told me to say it right in the confessional. However, my spirit is drowning in God and I cannot think what I want, despite my efforts. However, the confessor said: "Please speak after me." I repeated every word. However, as I pronounced each word, my spirit became immersed in the Person I was speaking. At one point, Jesus told me about a certain priest that these years would decorate his priestly years. The days of suffering always seem longer, but they too will pass, although they go so slowly that sometimes it seems to us that they are rather going backwards, but their end is soon. And then eternal and incomprehensible joy. Eternity. Whoever understands and comprehends even this one word that comes from You, O incomprehensible God, is eternity. I know that the graces that God gives me are sometimes only for certain souls. This awareness fills me with great joy. I always rejoice in the good of other souls as if I had it myself. At one point the Lord told me that: "The small imperfections of chosen souls hurt Me more than the sins of souls in the world of the living." I was very saddened by the fact that Jesus suffered from chosen souls. And Jesus told me: "It does not end with these small imperfections. I will reveal to you the secret of my heart, which I suffer from chosen souls. Ingratitude for so many graces is constant food for My heart from a chosen soul. Their love is lukewarm. My heart cannot bear it. These souls force Me to reject them from Myself. Others do not trust My goodness and never want to experience the sweet familiarity in their own hearts, but they look for Me somewhere far away and do not find Me. It is my goodness that does not convince me of my death, what will my soul be dead. in sadness I cannot help the soul here, even though I am God, because it despises Me . Having free will, he can either despise Me or love Me. You, dispenser of My mercy, tell the whole world about My goodness. And with this you will comfort My heart. I will tell you the most when you talk to Me in the depths of your heart. Here, no one can hinder My action. Here I rest as in a closed garden." The interior of my soul is as if a large and wonderful world in which God and I live. No one can enter there except God. At the beginning of this life with God, I was filled with fear and blindness. His brightness blinded me and I thought that He was not in my heart. But these were the moments when God worked in my soul and love became purer and stronger. And the Lord brought my will into the closest union with with my holy will. No one will understand what I experience in this wonderful palace of my soul, where I am constantly with my Beloved. No external things prevent me from communing with God. Even if I use the strongest words, it will not even be a shadow of how intoxicated my soul is with happiness and love through and through, I feel it physically. And the body shares in these joys, although it happens that the divine breaths are different in the same soul, but they come from the same source. One moment I saw Jesus thirsty and faint, and he said to me, "I am thirsty." When I gave the Lord water, he accepted it, but did not drink and disappeared immediately. He was dressed as if in agony. "When you consider what I am going to tell you, you will benefit more in the depths of your heart than if you read many books. Oh, if souls were willing to listen to My voice when I speak in the depths of their hearts, they would soon reach the height of holiness." January 8, 1936. When I was at the Archpastor's and asked Him that the Lord Jesus requires me to pray, asking for God's mercy for the world and that there should be such a congregation that would ask for God's mercy for the world , and I asked Him to give me permission to do everything that the Lord Jesus asks of me, the Archpastor replied to me these words: "As for prayer, I allow and even encourage you, sister. To pray as much as possible for the world and to pray for it. Mercy of God, because we all need to pray to this intention to the sister . , and this and it will be if God demands it. Please be completely calm. The Lord Jesus can do everything. Strive for close union with God and be of good cheer. These words filled me with great joy. When I left the Archbishop's office, I heard these words in my soul: "To strengthen your spirit, I speak through My representatives according to what I ask of you. But know this, that it will not always be so. They will oppose you in many things, and through this My grace will be manifested in you. And that this matter is Mine. But do not fear anything. I am always with you. Know this, My daughter, that all creatures, whether they know whether they want or not, they always fulfill My will. Father, at the beginning I said that these fragments basically have nothing to do with the difficulties in the Church and the situation in the Father's current diocese. And now, as I read it, I say: "God, it all has a lot to do with the difficult situation of the Church there and... Well, we won't necessarily talk about it. We won't necessarily experience it in this context. And I really like that the archpastor, i.e. the bishop, appears. Bishop. There was a bishop from Vilnius here and there is a bishop here, so it's brilliant juxtaposition that this is exactly how it turned out. When I saw it for the first time, I was also happy that there was some teaching for me, too, very specific in discerning various issues that always, almost every day, await the bishop. But what strikes me first in this text, in today's reading, are these first two formulations. "O my Jesus, Eternal Truth." Indeed, we may think that she wrote it that way because it was somehow appropriate to write it nicely. Meanwhile, for me this is an image that immediately struck me when she later talks about not being afraid of anything. "Then why am I not afraid? Because I feel loved." Yes, the Word of God says: "He who is perfected in love has no fear." And he who is not perfected in love is afraid. So she feels loved. And these two phrases are for me an image of God's two hands. "Oh my Jesus", this is such a tender motherly hand. There is this closeness, gentleness, cordiality. And "Eternal Truth", this is the other hand. I won't say it's strict, but a second hand that is the truth, that gives security, that sets boundaries, that is the masculine, fatherly hand. And these two hands, I think, embrace my sister, or embrace each of us. And I think it's worth having such an experience in prayer. I had one just like that for the first time. Maybe it's because with this fatherly heart and with these motherly hands of God, I still go somewhere and talk about it too. But these are just two phrases. This is an introduction. When I enter into prayer, I enter into God's hands and therefore I can feel safe. When I need this delicacy, I find it, but also when I need a clear path, to show it, it will also be there. So that's where the lack of fear comes from. "I am not afraid of anything, no hardships." For me, this is also an invitation to mobilize myself. These are the difficulties related to my spiritual life, to my growth, to my maturation. But there is also suffering, something that is not dependent on me. What's the point of ruining this scenario that I've prepared somewhere? And I don't have to be afraid of it either. Neither that God is inviting me to something more, nor that it will be "torpedoed" in some way, or, let's say, there will be external obstacles that I have no influence on. Because suffering often results from this, from some external condition, the context in which we find ourselves. And he is afraid of only one thing: "offending You, my Jesus." This shows the closeness and warmth she has with Jesus. This is indeed the case. I have such experiences when I look at small children, sometimes at my sisters' or brother's house, or somewhere else, and how they work with families. These children have the experience that when their mother even pretends to cry, or their father pretends that the child has done something unpleasant, the child is simply so scared, so concerned, so that the mother does not shed a tear, so that the father does not feel bad. So "I'd rather not exist than make you sad." And it really looks like that. And this is like one context where I feel like a child next to God. And that's what's so beautiful about this passage. This fragment is seemingly trivial, but for me there was so much depth at the beginning, because I returned to "Diary" after some time, I admit. And it immediately introduced me and invited me into something specific. And the second way of being with God is: "my love knows no one but You." This is again a more nuptial dimension. Here, so childlike, that I am like a child, and here I am like a bride next to Jesus, "I know only You and in You I am immersed, I am drowned." This is so amazing. I had the grace to meet a certain... For me it was a grace. A Muslim who became a Christian. And we had contact for some time. So at some point I was a little scared because of what she was doing she was experiencing in her relationship with God, and she was mentally healthy because she had been examined, so to speak, badly. It was this drowning in God, so I was so delighted, and on the other hand so moved, terrified that it was not for me, because I would simply drown, and she was swimming in all this, in this experience of God as such a neophyte. I think it was also an invitation for me to see that this world of mysticism exists. He's not like that... And she was very down to earth. So this fragment resonated strongly with me. Beautiful. And this fragment really resonates with me now... 573. No, I'm sorry. Wait a minute. 577. Faustyna describes here how she cannot pray "Glory be to the Father". He cannot say it because he starts and every time he says the name of one of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, he begins to drown in It. And somewhere the presence of this Person absorbs her so much that she is unable to go further with this prayer. And it moved me so much that even though she couldn't pronounce "Glory be to the Father" to the end, the Father Bishop stopped at the first two words of the fragment. We have never had such a situation where the first two words became the subject of our conversation. Because they are so contrasting. "My Jesus" - such a very tender, close, direct, such a hug. And then "Eternal Truth" - so dogmatic, so sublime. And which shows that both are very important in the Church. Because often we... I'm talking about myself, but also about others, we consider dogmas to be abstract. So inhuman, so cold, so stiff. Artificial, Inaccessible, no one knows why. And even recently I had a meeting with married couples, with Marriage Meetings, with the animators of this movement. And I was just talking about how important the dogma of the Holy Trinity is for me, which states that the Father loves us separately, the Son loves us separately, but they, loving each other together, love us with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit loves us too. And if... Abstraction and heresy - if the Father did not love the Son and the Son did not love the Father, there would be no Holy Spirit. And this shows how important in a marriage it is that the father loves the child, the mother loves the child, but that both of them, while loving each other, also create a love that also loves the child. That a child has three loves. This is an example showing how important dogma is. When we delve into it with faith, we try to pray with dogmas, it is also beautiful and God opens us spaces that show that we are similar to Him, because it shows that we are created in His image and likeness. This dogma is not detached from reality. It is written this way, presented theologically, maybe hermetically, but when we add some tenderness and closeness and break through through faith, it opens up to us so that we can drown in it all. But years later, when I came back, I was invited to this text of the "Diary", for which I am grateful, because it was also a new dimension that was immediately launched, because I used certain quotes from here in conversations with others. So this is a mine that is next to you, lying next to the kneeler. Because you need to have all these spiritual things gathered, but you don't necessarily reach for them. The Holy Bible is the first text here, but these two phrases immediately invited me into the hands of God. And that, I think, is so beautiful. I will just add, before we move on to another thread, that now, when I was listening to the Father, I immediately saw Peter and John running to the tomb of the Risen One. That is, this dogma and mysticism. This means that God also wanted them to be together. In many moments there is this John and Peter, Peter and John. And the beloved one, the one who lives this tenderness above all, and the other one who carries the burden of somehow encompassing this community, establishing some framework, naming it, taking responsibility. Both are needed. And together, together. Yes. We can also create such a dichotomy that there is an office and a charisma. Office and charisma. And someone says that these are the two arms of the cross. Both are necessary, because a cross without one arm does not exist, it needs these two arms. And now we are each other's cross. The office is sometimes a cross for the charism, because... Exactly, here there is also the saying: "wait, wait." The office says: "wait". And this is where the charisma can get nervous. But on the other hand, charisma can also be a cross for the office. That these are sometimes such difficult conversations and expectations, and it hurts. But then the cross is whole. And thanks to this, if we walk together, these two hands will be present, it will be a new life. Because after the cross there is new life, there will be the Holy Spirit. So... Back to number 577, because the sister had an association with this immersion, and I, in turn, look from the other side, from the confessor's side, because it is the male-female side... Such joint reading is so complementary, because I look from the confessor's side. And I also admire his wisdom and prudence. This is a feature that tells each of us who hear confessions that this is a certain process, that is, discernment, listening to the penitent and responding at his level. It feels like this at the moment. He is in such a condition, he is in such a mystical experience. Maybe it happens more often in sin, weakness, infirmity. It is also important not to make excessive demands, but exactly as the confessor says here. So communication is also important here, that his sister told him about it and he was able to relate to it. And it was as if this process of such accompaniment was taking place very consciously and therefore fruitfully. So I look at it this way. It's good to read in both male and female terms. It's absolutely beautiful, I just think that... As a person who goes to confession and a person who uses spiritual guidance, I really appreciate that someone is able to put it into some concrete framework. That some experiences, my experiences or anything I say, which is perhaps slightly undefined and not fully understood by me. Or something I've experienced, but I don't know how to relate to it and I don't know if it's something God's or something that's not God's, or maybe I'm just imagining something, it gives you such a sense of security that there is a confessor or a spiritual director who will tell you in a very real way: "Listen, now repeat it after me, Glory be to the Father. I understand that it takes you a lot of time, but it's with me now. Please try it. And it's terribly cool. For me it's like this ." It's a great blessing that this fatherly, male hand of dogma, the hand of a person who will look from the side and approach these experiences in a very real way, name them and verify them somehow. Maybe even say: "Listen, don't get too involved in it." Sometimes, when people write to us or leave comments... We have a whole team of sisters here who deal with it conversation, I very often feel like a spiritual director who says: "I understand, I understand, but listen: this, this and this." True, somewhere a bit like "pouring a cold bucket of water on your head" does good, it does good. And for me, the first experience was when I had a very, very close personal experience with the Mother of God . Real, very, very specific to some experience. Funny in its own way, but for me it was obvious that Our Lady was somehow confirming something to me in this way. And I remember it like it was today, it was before I entered the monastery. I called my spiritual director because I was so concerned that I had such proof that Our Lady was really present and that she was in my story. And I say this to him on such a "high C", and he listens, listens and says: "Woman, there are many more wonderful things waiting for a woman in life, best regards." End. As if: "OK, I accept, but girl, take it easy." He could be tired, right? No, that wasn't what was said with love. Sometimes God uses our sometimes rough approach. He uses our tools, including men's and confessors', but as we read here: "they fulfill My will." It's so interesting that even because of our weaknesses, sometimes God... Because I know what it looks like on the other hand, that sometimes you listen to someone so inspired and you can miss great things. But I'm thinking, Faustyna - maybe it's one in a million, maybe... I don't know what it's like. But maybe it is. This Muslim woman, I was moved by what the Father said about this Muslim woman. In general, this is a very interesting, separate story. But here I admit I'm right. Here, perhaps we will come back to 585, when she was at the archpastor's, now that we are discussing this topic. And after this meeting, as the sister mentioned here: "these words filled me with great joy." And it's so beautiful that after a meeting where she didn't necessarily have to leave happy, because the bishop said "we'll wait". Not what she wanted. "Pray here, you know, and we'll wait here." However, this peace came that she achieved thanks to this meeting with the office. With this hand so stronger. But again I come back to my sister's confession, where she was supposed to say "Glory be to the Father", because this is how such threads open up. Somewhere here we are present in these mystical threads, this immersion in God. But my experience as a confessor or spiritual companion is related to spiritual enslavement, that is, to this dark world where simple things were difficult to do. These penances related to confession or conversations encouraging spiritual growth had to be verified very often because people were unable to make certain commitments. So it was also so amazing that sometimes repeating certain words and looking for some trick would make them start praying. For me it was so amazing when at some stage someone came to me ... Such light came that faith comes from listening to the Word, so we need these people to strengthen themselves with faith, so they must listen to the Word of God, read the Word of God. And it turns out that they are not able to, because I had a few copies of the Holy Bible that were torn. Destroyed because these people were unable to read the Word. Either it was dark or there was simply aggression. But at some stage I discovered that maybe this is the time. And it happened that they listened to the audio, for example , and I invited them to transcribe it. What reached their ears. And I have a few notebooks with the Word of God copied, with the psalms or some other fragments first. Incredible. In the beginning there was one word, sometimes even a letter. It's like Faustyna here. She couldn't say a single word because she was drowning. This person couldn't say or even write a word because he was so enslaved that he was locked up. But over time it turned out that freedom had come. The more the Word of God, the more faith, and the more faith, the faster this process of liberation took place. So it can also be read the other way around. Here I say, not all of us have such mystical states, but sometimes we have other experiences that paralyze us. And don't be afraid. As much as we can. God sees it and it is beautiful. Yes, yes. But I also remember in the "Diary" that Jesus says that "I do not reward for results, but for the effort undertaken." And perseverance, this also rings out very often in Faustyna's life: perseverance, perseverance, perseverance, faithfulness, perseverance and that's it. I simply decide on "God's direction". And I do as much as I can in this direction, and with this comes great grace. A grace that at some point may spill out unknown to us. That she can act very quietly, very slowly and very stealthily through a long time, and then suddenly a moment comes and floods you. It's like people sometimes say about Chinese bamboo, which - when you sow it into the ground - it seems to be wasted because nothing happens. And for a few years, they say differently, it creates a root system, so strong, and after a few years there comes a moment when it shoots up and can grow up to twenty meters in a year. So this rooting is very important. These laborious things that you can't see, you can't see, you can't see. Nothing seems to be happening here, and then we see the fruits. Or sometimes we don't see them, but God sees them. So it is important that He looks at the heart and lives in our hearts. I think this is an important thread of encouraging faithfulness, perseverance and not focusing too much on the fruits or on this... I don't know if I'm happy with it or not, how much it costs me and whether there is something to admire or nothing to admire. Because somewhere along the path of spiritual life there are also temptations to withdraw, because there is no way to withdraw, because I start comparing myself. It's also great that it resonates. But I can already see that the page is turned. There's another thread, right? Yes. Here is a thread related to yesterday, a bit, i.e. the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord, because we are recording it... Can you say that? Sure, you might say. There is no secret. No, there is no secret. That it is in this liturgical context that we also create. Here, at the end of this point 572, it is said that "only with Him, in Him and through Him can we please God." And yesterday we heard the Father saying to the Son: "I am well pleased with you", "I am pleased with you". So this is also so beautiful. In yesterday's liturgy we heard that in Christ we stand before God and can call Him: "Dad". We can call Him: "Father." That without Christ it would be impertinence, that He gives us what we say in the liturgy. "We dare to speak." Because normally we are impertinent, standing before God and saying: "Dad". Sinners, capable of any sin in fact, but it is in Christ, in Him, through Him that we can please God. And this probably also applies to monastic life, because it talks about the sisters' zeal for God to dwell in us, we should have such zeal. For me, this zeal is a kind of burning heart where in fire we can reconcile everything that is irreconcilable , i.e. God and man. And He can dwell here. And this is a propitiation. This may be a difficult word for me today. Because why appease God when Jesus has already done it all? But for me it's a bit like getting into my mission that I have to perform, my calling, which is actually about dying. This is what atonement is all about, i.e. entering the world of Jesus and imitating Him. I'll tell you what it's about, because... I'm coming back to the Baptism of the Lord, when Jesus, standing in the Jordan, hears: "You are my beloved Son, in you I am well pleased." And when He hears this, He hears that He is the Son. He knows what His identity is. "You are my son. I love you." But this phrase "my Son" has a strong resonance in the biblical context and is associated for the first time in the Old Testament with the situation when Abraham and Isaac go to Mount Moriah. And Isaac asks his father, his father , "Where is the lamb?" And then Abraham says, "My son, the Lord will provide himself a lamb." "My son", that is, "my son", sounds in the context of death, in the context of sacrifice. And as biblical scholars explain it to me, yesterday came back very strongly and when I read this point it also resonated. Jesus - the Word, so all the words are in Him, reads it: "you are my beloved Son", but immediately - "Your mission is to die. You are going to death. Your mission is to die." So it's so powerful, but difficult. How beautiful. Because immediately in this "my Son", in what Faustina experiences here, when she is held in the hands of God, "I love You". Immediately afterwards it says: "but you will die". That is, "Your mission is to give life." But it doesn't necessarily have to be blood-related dying, because that's what we most often associate with it. But it was these two fragments that surprised me so much. Because I admit that I prayed about it last night too. The first time was when I received the text, and then just last night and yesterday's liturgy resonated with me. So "you are my beloved daughter, I love you." And then an association: "Why does she write about this atonement, about a sacrifice made of love? About something that is not so simple?" "But you will die. Your mission will be to die." And it would be painful and cruel if it weren't for this second part. "In You I delight." What does it mean? There is a technical word "eudokesa", a word that referred to sacrifices offered in the Jerusalem temple so that God would give "shalom" - peace. And now God answered. If he accepted this sacrifice, it was the word "eudokesa". This is the kind of sacrifice I like, I accept it. So the entire text read says: "You are my beloved Son, but your mission is to die. I like this mission and I will accept it as a wonderful sacrifice, full of love, an excess of love. Because for Me a sacrifice is such an excess of love." So this is what Faustyna writes about: it's nice to be loved and beloved in God's hands. But this is not enough. Because God says: "Okay, but you are not just for yourself, but now your role is to die. To be a pure sacrifice. To be the one who will be pleasing to God and united with Jesus. And then it makes sense. But I will like it." I think it is very difficult for a modern person to hear this. And on the other hand, when I look at it, these are the realities of the family. It's true that two people love each other, they confess their love to each other. "You are my beloved." "You are my beloved." And then they start living together. If they enter very immaturely, they think that they will only whisper these tender words to each other all the time and that will be their time together. But if they already have some awareness of themselves, and life, and the relationship, what being with another person is, that it is not... We are not the same. There will always be friction, there will always be misunderstandings, there will always be... Some feeling of loneliness. Many, many, many such unpleasant factors. And this child - one, two, three. This is all a dying space. But this is also a space of love. How much we need to talk about this today, because I think that is probably why so many marriages fall apart, because they are not well prepared to enter into such a relationship of true, mature love. That dying will happen here. But all this is beautiful, good, flowing from love and leading to greater love. Yes. This is what we are missing. We are afraid to say that love costs money. And it is known that Jesus did not come into the world - I will say heresy - he did not come into the world to die. He only came into the world to love. And this is close to us. However, it turns out that this love changes shape. And there comes a moment when you have to love so much that it hurts. You have to love so much that you have to die. Jesus showed it. So it is not the cross that is in the center, but love. And the cross is the way of love. And that's how it is in marriage. This is true in all our lives. But when we talk about family, because that's the environment we most often deal with, that's what it's all about. Today, many people no longer vow to love each other at the altar, and that's interesting. Lately... And painful. We talked with priests about these annual summaries and 3, 2, 4 vows per year. For a year? For a year, yes. However, someone there explains to me that he works in the registry office and these civil weddings are becoming more and more common. So people don't believe in love until the end, and subconsciously they don't believe it... They are afraid of love that costs money and is associated with dying. Marital love is paschal love, that is, love that dies in order to rise again. And I think that many are afraid to go through this moment of the cross and they lose what is most beautiful. Because after the cross there is new life. And even recently, when we met with married couples, I mentioned it here, we talked about it, that God did not invent marriage as a trap. And it's not that only beginnings are delicious, but every crisis... Pope Francis says so beautifully in "Amoris laetitia": Every crisis is a birth. That it carries hope that when we get through it, a new life will be born. Or another image - that it is a new wine, even better. And many people drink this wine so fresh, thinking that this is what it is about. And when something difficult comes, they run away and start this weak wine again. And life is getting worse. And if they went further, as in Cana of Galilee, had a difficult conversation like Mary with Jesus, then there is the wine that you saved until the end, it is so good. That it turns out that the more we go through this kind of dying, the tastier life, the tastier love, although it costs. So here, in these two fragments, it sounded very baptismal to me, so... But also marital. We die to live. This is the Paschal life. The way love is, it has its price. But if we know that this is the path, we already see the seeds of something that is more. And the next point is just... Can I say something about this next point? Sure, which one is next? The next one, just 573. Because that's how it goes in my mind. The first time I read it, I thought, "that's cool, that's cool." But later, when my sister told me that it was good to read it during prayer, I followed her advice and went to the chapel. I have the grace of having a chapel through the door and I prayed with this text. And here we are talking about this kind of discernment of certain spiritual states again. She had a vision, she went to her confessor, so she consulted it, and then they saw this physical place together. So this is such a beautiful demonstration that in spiritual discernment these factors are important: my internal, external and the companion who will judge them for me. So these are the three lights that are needed. There may certainly be many others, but these are the basic, fundamental ones that you need to think about. Let me just add one more thing here. Yes, it is even more incomprehensible, because this particular vision stops me and makes me tremble a little before God, because this thread... Sister Faustina will see several monasteries, she will have several visions. I will talk about it in one of the episodes, that they are, they are contradictory, each one is different. She is looking for one monastery and has visions. And each one is different. So what? So which one is this about? Should there be several of them? Is this supposed to be one? But if one, which one? And here I go, this one. They saw here, she saw in a vision. Then they look - there is actually one in Vilnius. Father Sopoćko was so concerned that he even started restoring this building. He invested money in it. And he thought to himself: "Okay, this will be the building where a monastery for the new congregation will be built." Then war breaks out. Nothing comes of it. None of Sister Faustina's visions came true. And so I think, God, we look at this experience in a broader sense... Because this is the sequence through which the Lord Jesus leads Faustina and it leads to something. We will talk about it somewhere at the end of "Diary". For now, we just look at the moments they are in. And it is so moving that she is a woman of God, there is her confessor, a man of God. Together they seek God's will. And it may also happen that at a certain stage, despite all their "Godliness", being very divine and very sincere in their search for what God wants, they may not fully understand it all, they may still be wrong, they may still make a mistake, or we could even say - waste time. Why did this priest Sopoćko renovate this monastery if nothing would come of it anyway? But this is still in God's plan. This is our wandering, searching, making mistakes and not fully understanding. It all fits somewhere. Because there is also this element of negative discernment, which is not God's will. So this is the moment... Sometimes it's expensive, but we can't do nothing. So this is an invitation to discernment. And sometimes it can be discouraging, because "it's not like that, it's not like that", but it teaches us and that's beautiful. But for me this fragment is so much deeper that I am not talking about such a literal specificity, but about such a spiritual perspective on what I read here, that she saw... She saw, "then she touched the boards that were nailed together like a door." And I remembered a fragment from the Gospel of Luke. I have also been carrying this with me for some time after my retreat, where it is mentioned in chapter 23 about the spectacle that people experienced while looking at the cross of Jesus, the Crucified One. And Luke called this a spectacle. This is a word that appears only once in the Gospel and it makes us wonder that people were beating their chests and looking at this spectacle. And Origen translated it as "God's vision." That's what he called it. And he says that from a human point of view it is cruel and terrible. This is the debris, just like we read here in this passage. There's nothing to look at. And if you look with God's vision, God already sees resurrection, new life there. So it's also amazing to see something more in what may be difficult, painful, scattered. Look how God sees it already. To see the boards like this, for me it is, let's say, a symbol of a cross, which becomes a door to a new life. And often it's like... Maybe we're not always deceived, but we're so distracted that we don't pay attention to something that seems so full of rubble. And there God invites us, that there may be new life. I read it this way in a slightly diocesan way, without offending anyone. But looking from the outside and looking at what I heard about the diocese, I could have thought so. But when I entered from the inside, I saw a door. And it is so beautiful that exactly what I mentioned at the beginning, that it is... This look of God shows me the depth and grace that I have received, that it is not so much that I have to do something there, but that God also wants to do many things with me, precisely because I am there and it is not me who is gracious, but He is gracious to me. And the people I meet are special. And this situation. Even though from the outside it looks like there's some rubble there, I say... To me, it's... It's a door. Beautiful. It's beautiful that when you look at death you can already see life. I wonder if anyone on Golgotha was able to do this. We strongly believe that Mary was able to do this while looking at the cross, although she probably couldn't put it into words or into a specific scenario of what would happen next. But she looked at her dead Son and somehow, because of her trust in God, she saw that this could not be the end. It will continue. This will be next, something will be next. Some good will come next. It was the "fiat" completed from the Annunciation, which she did not understand yet or understood in her own way. And then it matured. When she believed in God, she believed that this word would come true. How, we don't know. She always asked "how". And that was beautiful to me. And this embarrasses me in the context of Zechariah, who was a priest. And he was punished because he had a "if" problem. Because we wonder what the difference was between these two annunciations - to Zechariah and to Mary. So he had doubts whether it would actually happen and that's why he was speechless. However, Mary, for her it was obvious that it would happen, only "how". And this is so beautiful about her. Maybe she didn't expect the "how" to be in the shape of a cross, but she still believed it would happen. Father, I have to ask because I have the most emphasized fragment here that we haven't talked about yet. So I would like to ask you to go to 580 now. This is about Jesus' great pain. And this is shocking for me in reading the entire "Diary" and in my spiritual life in general. I remember the first time I heard these words, and it was shocking to me that God was not the most hurt by my sin. All my life I was convinced that my sin was the greatest pain for him. And these are the sins that were the most uncool for me. That this is definitely what hurts Him the most, because it makes me feel the most uncomfortable. And suddenly I read that what hurts Him most is the disbelief in His goodness. How so? Seriously? It's not that I did this, this, this, this, this, that. But then I don't come to You with it, because I don't believe that You love me, that You are good, that You will accept me with all this mud. This is truly the sin of paradise. It wasn't that God was so hurt by the fact that they ate it, but by the fact that then they started hiding in the bushes, running away, and "obscuring" and "blaming" someone else, because they were so afraid of confrontation with love. Yes, because here we still have a problem with the experience of love. How we think about love, how we experience it mainly. And because we don't know it as God has it for us, we have a problem with it. We still don't believe it. And we experience it ourselves. This somehow resonates so strongly today, even in the context of the Church. That the Church, which understands itself as a place where God is to be present, God is present in order to give Him to the world, because we are to be this instrument and sign of unity with God and among people. And today there is a time when no one believes it. That they don't believe. And sometimes when I talk or talked, as we talked here , with journalists, with various people, there this horizontal dimension is only present, and there we don't really talk about God anymore. Somewhere, once or twice, I tried to comment on certain events that were happening through the eyes of faith, and even some Catholic newspapers and journalists said that I was theologizing reality. And it's nice that priests who were nearby and we were talking say: "How is a bishop supposed to look at the world if not theologically?" And this is a fundamental view. First look. So, exactly. We are to theologize reality, that is, introduce God into it. And in the Church we still believe that God wants to teach us love and through us talk about this love and show it to the world. And it is so paradoxical that people do not believe that God loves. And yet when there is such testimony of life as we have, it is hard for them to believe it. So God is not good. God is not good. And this is a fundamental problem. If someone doesn't believe me that I have... I have no intentions. And why are you doing this? Just like that. So you don't want anything for it? How many times have people wanted something there, for example for the service of an exorcist. It is so beautiful that you cannot accept anything there, not even the appearance of any gifts. And it was so difficult for many people that they came... Three hours, four hours of time had to be devoted to them. And then again in a week, and in a week. And so on, sometimes for many months. And they felt very obliged to offer something there. And I have been helpless many times. I say... Then I say: "because it won't work, because it won't work." That's when they backslid. But this shows that we have this kind of commercial love in our minds, something for something. Disbelief, because we do not experience such love every day, that we can love as much as He loves. Free, generous. And now it is probably so important on our part to set an example of this kind of love. How to do it, I don't know. I also remember an encounter with... And not just one, but also with a woman who was deeply involved in such an inappropriate relationship. And it was appropriate to say at the first meeting : "then confess, break up with it and everything will be OK." But somehow the Holy Spirit told me not to do it. And there was another meeting, another, another. And she says one day that I'm ready for confession today. And he explains to me what's going on. That she was constantly looking for a love that didn't have to be paid for. And she already had several men there, and the last one was a safe one for her. But she was afraid to break up with it, because she did not believe that what God would propose, life with Him, was possible in the kind of love that He promised there and that she had heard about. But during our meetings, where there were no conditions , I didn't even think about it, she says... As if she had a taste of the fact that there can be a love that doesn't want anything. And that's why she was ready. Now I remember a story once told by a father and a woman... I don't know if it's the same thread, but I remember it somewhere. She's a woman of easy morals, a prostitute, who couldn't give up on it either, but it still hurt her somewhere and she went to confession. But this father couldn't give her absolution until she said she was breaking up with it. But she kept coming to confession and he simply talked to her, listened, blessed her, encouraged her, supported her. But he still couldn't give her absolution. And once she came to him with such a declaration, "that now I am ready to break up with it." And I explained to him that it was because even though he knew what she was doing and he knew that she would come back to it, he still called her - it was abroad - "per lady". He addressed her with respect, he didn't call her "You", he just called her "ma'am", which for her was... No one spoke to her like that, no one spoke to her with respect. This priest always spoke to her with respect. And after years of coming, going, returning to her swamp, she was able to say: "Okay, now I can break up with this swamp, because you showed me my dignity, which is unchangeable. You didn't change your mind about me, even though I kept doing bad things. I see that I'm not a bad person. I do bad things, but I can choose not to do them. In you, in your attitude , I see that I can not do them. I don't want to do them anymore." Yes, because the love I have experienced gives me strength. This is the meeting of Jesus with the adulterous woman, caught in adultery, where He bends down... For me it is always an image that He bends down to see her eyes. Because she's so crouched and afraid that she's about to get hit with a stone. And he appeared on her level to lift her up with his love. And what somewhere there really hit home for me. He calls her: "woman" - "gyne" there in the original. So he talks to her like he talks to his mother. And it's so amazing that he calls her... With so much love and respect. ...referring it to his immaculately pure Mother. That you are just like my mother is now. And that gives you strength. So this experience of love makes it difficult for me to be ungrateful, because then I can follow Him. I guess that's where this comes from... Disbelief in goodness. Disbelief that God can love so much. Because he drew us with human bonds, and these were bonds of love. These human loves of ours are what they are. As I often think, the fact that many people today cannot believe in God's love is because of us, because of the lack of testimony of people who have already experienced this love. That we are "messing up". This is our fault. That He wants to show this love through us. Because indeed He does not act abstractly. He doesn't love abstractly. He loves very factually, in the details of life. But it happens because of us. This is God incarnate and His love is incarnate. And sometimes, when people tell me some good things about me, I realize who I am and how miserable I am. But I also realize that God's love actually passes through me. I feel it physically, even sometimes, that His love passes through me. She is not of me, she is not of my misery. She is from Him who does not despise this misery and says: "Okay, Gaudia, today I will also pass through you, if you give Me a chance, if you give Me this channel, you will make this passage available to Me." It's the sister who says the last text... Really? 582. And this means that the breaths of God that are in her are such that she experiences her even physically and the body takes part in these joys. So this is also about the fact that it may be like this. That the whole person is moved, it is not just the soul or emotions, but even physically the person experiences it. This God's love... It is what changes. Because it's... We have such... We have... That's what I think about myself too. But when I listen to people, I identify with many people, that the law, the command, the regulation is still the first, that this is what love is supposed to be associated with. And what happened recently in the liturgy again, where we heard that they will cancel the year of grace from the Lord. And this very much corresponds to our "summer of love" that we are experiencing, i.e. the Jubilee Year. There it is exactly "to shout", because there it is "to preach", that is, "to shout the year of grace". "Scream for grace", "scream for grace". That is, about the kind of love that wants nothing at the beginning. She doesn't set any conditions. Shout about such love. This is first. And I think that this Jubilee Year is also supposed to resound anew that God is full of freedom, that he gives freedom, gives grace, gives happiness. Then we ourselves choose this effort, this effort, so as not to lose this grace. But that's later. And we twist it, we impose conditions. And so I think that many people don't want to come to Church because we keep setting conditions. And this is where the misunderstood Pope Francis comes from, shouting in Lisbon: "todos, todos, todos." How is everyone? We don't understand that this is not the point. That it is not about accepting sin, accepting mediocrity, but everyone is to come, "all come to Me and experience this love, and then you will decide whether you will stay or go." But in complete freedom. "You have new sandals, you can go. I give you an inheritance." But it is in our heads and hearts that things must change. When I read this "Diary" now, I feel... I am encouraged again. And that's how it's supposed to work. And for all those who listen to us and for the guests who come here. Father, is there anything else that you would like to hear at the end? To make it sound? I wrote down here... From issue 584, that "what I am going to tell you will benefit you more in the depths of your heart than if you read many books." And this reminded me of this text, this fragment of a song. God always lives at the bottom of my heart. In my heart, at the bottom, I hear His voice. I remember this from my youth. And I thought that if I had the opportunity to sing it, it would be beautiful and I did it. Wonderful, wonderful. Yes, we are the beloved child, I am the bride, and what's more we perform a dogmatic service. I mean, no, but Father does. And all this is contained in one person, in one reality - a child, a son and an apostle too, one of those chosen ones who are supposed to somehow push this Church forward. Pull, push, whatever you have to do. Father, Bishop, thank you very much. And thanks to you for being with us during this episode. I really believe that there was a lot of such content to comfort hearts. And I hope you feel that way. That you felt awakened in this hope in this Jubilee Year, that this hope begins to bloom in you again after listening to this next meeting with Sister Faustina's "Diary". Once again, many, many thanks to the Father for agreeing to come, for agreeing to pray with us with these contents and to share what he... The bishop always deigns to come. And walk. And he walks and bends down. Thank you very much for the invitation, because it was a great inspiration for me . And as I say, it has already helped a few people. In this short time, I used these texts to pass them on to someone. Wonderfully! We are very happy. Especially since somewhere I had the inspiration to... That here in our series we handed out a lot of "Diaries" to our listeners. And today we have "Diaries" for Father Bishop, so that Father Bishop will leave Łagiewniki with "Diaries" so that he can distribute them to people. Lord, how gracious You are. I didn't want anything, and here I get "The Diaries". But it was in such a beautiful spirit that not for the Father, not for the Father. To give away. Because we are supposed to be a tool. Steward of the "Diaries". I haven't been there yet. Once again, many, many thanks. And finally, I ask for a blessing for all our listeners and for our work here Near Rahamim. May the blessing of Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, descend upon you and remain forever. Amen. Amen. Great God bless you. Holy Sister Faustina, pray for us. Jesus, I trust in You. With God, dear ones.