February 6, 1908
✞ Signs to know whether the soul is in Grace.
Volume 8 — Entry 22
Continuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen so very afflicted, and I said to Him: ‘My Love, why are You so afflicted?’ And He: "Ah! my daughter, when I allow that churches remain deserted, ministers dispersed, Masses reduced, it means that the sacrifices are offenses for Me, that the prayers are insults, the adorations irreverences, the confessions amusements, and without fruit. Therefore, no longer finding my glory, but offenses, nor any good for them – making no use of them, I take them away. But this tearing ministers away from the Sanctuary means also that things have reached the ugliest point, and that the variety of scourges will multiply. How hard man is - how hard!"