January 1st 1955
– Mimi: “Thank You my Beloved for Your kindness. I was so happy to begin the new year by attending Holy Mass celebrated by my director. How happy I was to receive my God! At the beginning of this year, I offer You all that I have. I throw myself completely into Your divine arms. I accept with love and submission Your Holy Will.
Ô Almighty God, grant me a greater love for You. Increase my confidence and perseverance in prayer and in doing good for without You I can do nothing. I need You to accomplish my duties. You know my great desire never to refuse You anything. You know how much I want to attain my goal this year. I want to save many souls, but I need You, Your grace. My desires are so great but my strength so little. But with You I can do anything.
My Beloved, I thank You for all the graces I received during this year in the spiritual realm. I also thank You for the trials and crosses accompanied by Your grace to endure them with resignation. With each cross, I discovered Your love for me more and more. I thank the Holy Spirit to help me understand what God expects from me and the importance of the cross, of sufferings in my life.
Thank You, my God, for Your infinite mercy, Your patience. Thank You for Your love. Thank You for so much kindness I did not deserve. Thank You for giving me a director who is enlightened, a good and holy priest worthy of carrying the title of God’s representative.
His example and firmness in accomplishing everything perfectly and giving me the courage and an entire submission to the Holy Will of God, the strength to carry on, for I know that in obeying him I am on the right path. However, I did not always understand the importance of blind obedience, of entire submission, of total abandonment. How patient he has been for the last 5 years!
My God, are You pleased with us, with our work over the past 5 years? I beg You, help us. There is still a lot to be done in my soul to purify it and render it agreeable to God. I thank You for all graces received. I did not deserve so much. Once again, thank You, thank You for everything. I want to get rid of all that displeases God. I no longer want to offend Him, even with venial sins. I also want to rid myself of my imperfections, my numerous faults. Especially when I lack confidence that creeps in at times through temptations. Yes, I want to atone. I want to show You my love and gratitude. I want to be constantly on the alert for You. I believe in Your presence within me. I do not want to offend Your gentle gaze and make Your heart suffer, for You have so loved me and given me all out of love.
I no longer fear death for I have thrown myself with love and confidence into the arms of my Gentle Mother of heaven. I am Her little girl. I am certain She will come and get me. Why fear? Does God not give me each day a proof of His love, of His infinite mercy? And why fear judgment? God knows better than I the place He has prepared for me out of His kindness and infinite mercy. And Jesus in becoming my Spouse has giving me a real proof of His love. I so want to please Him.
I allow Him to work freely in me and when death will come, I will go towards God with my Beloved for it is not safe to let a poor little girl go alone on an unknown road. And since my Beloved is always walking by my side and that my great desire is never to leave Him, why would He leave me alone for such a long trip? I have the right to expect everything from Him, for I love Him, I trust in Him, I believe that His love and grace will sustain me each day.”
