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When Sr. Faustina was quite sick and “very weak,” Jesus urged her to imitate Him and unite
with Him on the Cross, all through her “last moments” in life (Diary, # 324):
(August 13, 1934). My will has not yet been fully accomplished in you; you will
still remain on earth, but not for long. I am well pleased with your trust, but your
love should be more ardent. Pure love gives the soul strength at the very moment
of dying. When I was dying on the Cross, I was not thinking about Myself, but
about poor sinners, and I prayed for them to My Father. I want your last moments
to be completely similar to Mine on the Cross. There is but one price at which
souls are bought, and that is suffering united to My suffering on the Cross. Pure
love understands these words; carnal love will never understand them.
The Church teaches that Christ’s way of the Cross is a mysterious divine prerogative “to
enter into His glory” (Lk 24:26) or that we are “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only
we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him" (Rom 8:17). Additionally, “the
Messiah’s sufferings…is the will of the Father” to save sinners (cf. Lk 24:27; CCC, 555, 622).
Thus, as the Father willed that Christ take up His Cross; so should His followers imitate Him on
a “daily” basis (Lk 9:23-24).
Amid great suffering, Sr. Faustina prayed to God that” His holy will should be done” in
her life. Certainly, if she “accepted delights and raptures of love” to the point of being unaware
of her surroundings, it was only fitting that she also “accepted with love…everything… as
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