1119. My Master, Lord Jesus Christ! My speedy, swift, unashamed Intercessor! I thank You with all my heart that You mercifully listened to me - when I, in darkness, crampedness and the flames of the enemy, cried out to You - quickly, sovereignly, graciously delivered me from my enemies and gave my heart space, lightness, light! Oh, Master, how I suffered from the machinations of the enemy, how timely You showed me help, and how obvious Your almighty help was! I praise Your goodness, benevolent Master, hope of the desperate; I praise You that You did not disgrace my face in the end, but mercifully delivered me from the darkness and dishonor of hell. How, after this, can I ever despair of Your hearing and mercy on me, the accursed? I will, I will always call on Your sweetest name, my Savior; But You, O innumerable Goodness, as always, now and before, save me according to Your immeasurable compassion, for Your name is the Lover of Mankind and the Savior!
1122. ...God, Your name is Love! Teach me true love, like strong death. So I have abundantly tasted its sweetness from communication in the spirit of faith, even in Thee, with Thy faithful servants and maidservants, and I have been abundantly pacified and enlivened by it. Confirm, O God, this which you have done in me! ABOUT! If only it were like this all the time! Grant me more often to have communion of faith and love with Your faithful servants, with Your churches, with Your Church, with Your members!
1123. My sweetest Savior! You, having gone out to serve the human race, not only preached the word of heavenly truth in the church, but flowed around cities and villages, did not shy away from anyone, went to everyone’s houses, especially to those whose warm repentance You foresaw with Your divine gaze. So You did not sit at home, but had fellowship of love with everyone. Grant us to have this communion of love with Your people, so that we, shepherds, are not confined to Your sheep in our houses, as in castles and dungeons, leaving only for services in the church or for services in houses, according to one duty, with memorized prayers. May our lips open to speak freely in the spirit of faith and love with our parishioners. May our Christian love for our spiritual children be revealed and strengthened through lively, free, fatherly conversation with them. Oh, what sweetness You have hidden, Master, our boundless Love, in the spiritual conversation, warmed by love, between the spiritual father and his spiritual children, what bliss! And how can I not strive on earth with all my might for such bliss?
And it is still only weak beginnings, only some weak semblance of the heavenly bliss of love! Love especially the fellowship of charity, both material and spiritual. Do not forget about charity and fellowship (Heb. 13:16).
1151. I will write thanksgiving to the Lord my God, the God of my salvation! Before confession during Holy Week, the enemy stopped me, striking my heart with tightness, confusion and evil despondency. But so I prayed with all my heart with undoubted faith to Him, the God of my salvation, and said: God, all-merciful Father! You, by Your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, said: ask, and it will be given to you... everyone who asks receives it... or who is there a man from you, whose son, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone to eat? How much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him (Matthew 7:7-11). By faith, having embraced in my heart what You have spoken, I appeal to You: give me now Your Holy Spirit, may I strengthen my heart to undertake the work of confession, to a prudent decision or binding of human consciences, to patience and complacency, to a kind and edifying treatment of my spiritual children. So what? O God of mercy! I conducted the entire confession perfectly: calmly, kindly, edifyingly, without any burden or restless haste. I glorify the merciful right hand of the all-good Heavenly Father.
So you always need to strengthen yourself with heartfelt prayer to the Heavenly Father for every spiritual feat, as our Lord Jesus Christ prayed before appearing to the human race, before the election of the Apostles, before His sufferings.
1175. ...Glory to the grace of the Holy Comforter-Spirit! ... We thank You, Lord Jesus, for for Your sake the Holy Spirit is in the world!
1193. I thank You, my Joy, Lord of glory, for You received my image through incarnation from the Most Pure Virgin and honored, exalted, and deified humanity; I thank You, for you have raised me from corruption to incorruption, you have cleansed my filth, you have healed infirmities and illnesses, you have transformed sorrows into joy, you have turned the troubles of sin into the space of Your justification, which comes from faith and repentance of the heart, you have driven away the darkness of passions and given Your spiritual light, you have taken away confusion and peace from above. you have sent down, you have taken away cowardice and you have given courage with boldness. Glory to Your mercy!
1211. Grant to me, Lady, purity of heart, simplicity of heart, filial trust, devotion and love for You always, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
1216. ...God's wonderful creation is man! Glory to the Creator and Provider! Glory to the Savior of the human race, who draws our race out of the mire of passions, from corruption and death, and leads us into the eternal belly.
1220. Lord! teach me to give alms willingly, with affection, with joy and to believe that by giving it, I do not lose, but gain infinitely more than what I give. Turn my eyes away from people with a hard heart, who do not sympathize with the poor, who face poverty with indifference, condemn, reproach, brand it with shameful names and weaken my heart so as not to do good, in order to harden me against poverty. Oh my God! how many such people there are! Lord, fix the matter of almsgiving! Lord, may all my alms be for benefit and not for harm! Lord, give alms to Your poor people! Lord, deign to build a house for the poor in this city, as I have repeatedly prayed to You, the all-good, all-powerful, wise, wonderful! (and erected).
1237. Lord! grant that Your church may impart enlightenment of souls, cleansing of sins, sanctification, peace, health, and peace of mind to all who come to it with faith, reverence and fear of God, strengthen faith, hope and love, contribute to the correction of life, success in all good undertakings and deeds of mutual love, pure Christian living, softening of hearts and the cessation of self-love, hard-heartedness, covetousness, greed, envy, malice, gluttony, drunkenness, debauchery - these vices are so harmful in public life and undermine its foundations. Grant this, grant, Lord, to all those who love to visit Your church, and even those who do not love it, incline them to love it and correct their hearts and deeds: for the time is near and judgment is at the door for all people of every rank and condition, of every gender and age, and everyone faces a matter of infinitely great importance - to give an answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
1253. How good You are, my Lord, and how close You are to us - so close that we can always talk with You and be comforted by You. To breathe through You, to be enlightened by You, to have peace in You, to find space in the heart in You. God! teach me the simplicity of love for You and for my neighbor, may I always be with You, may I always have peace in You. God! do not allow me for a moment to commit fornication with the disgusting and all-evil enemy - the devil, neither malice, nor pride, nor envy, nor stinginess, nor covetousness, nor gluttony, nor lustful thoughts, nor blasphemy, nor despondency, nor lies, nor anything sinful. May I always be all Yours!