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Your blessing and compensate them for all the losses incurred because of me (Diary, # 1062). (Diary, # 346) Sr. Faustina wrote on the prayer petitions she made during her three Hours of Adoration of the Lord on December 24, 1934: The Vigil of Christmas. After supper, we hurried to finish our work, and at nine, I was able to go to the chapel for adoration. I was allowed to stay up and wait for the Midnight Mass…From nine to ten o’clock I offered my Adoration for my parents and my whole family. From ten to eleven, I offered it for the intention of my Spiritual Director, in the first place thanking God for granting me this great visible help here on earth, just as He had promised me, and I also asked God to grant him the necessary light so that he could get to know my soul and guide me according to God’s good pleasure. And, from eleven to twelve, I prayed for the Holy Church and the clergy, for sinners, for the missions, and for our houses. I offered the indulgences for the Souls in Purgatory (Diary, # 346). (Diary, # 1604): Sr. Faustina had a unique “vivid” experience of God as well as the way His Angels and His Saints “perfectly” worshipped or “gave glory” to Him. She concluded that her worship of Him was “miserable,” yet in His “kindness,” God “accepted” her prayer as “pleasing,” as well: When, during adoration, I repeated the prayer, “Holy God” several times, a vivid presence of God suddenly swept over me, and I was caught up in spirit before the majesty of God. I saw how the Angels and the Saints of the Lord give glory to God. The glory of God is so great that I dare not try to describe it, because I would not be able to do so, and souls might think that what I have written is all there is. Saint Paul, I understand now why you did not want to describe Heaven, but only said that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love Him [cf. I Cor. 2:9; 2 Cor. 12:1- 7]. Yes, that is indeed so. And all that has come forth from God returns to Him in the same way and gives Him perfect glory. Now I have seen the way in which I adore God; oh, how miserable it is! And what a tiny drop it is in comparison to that perfect heavenly glory. O my God, how good You are to accept my praise as well, and to turn Your Face to me with kindness and let us know that our prayer is pleasing to You (Diary, # 1604). lxxvii (4.3) On the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Absentia (Diary, # 1419): Sr. Faustina wrote in her Diary that Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 188