✞ The human race is all one family; when someone does some good work and offers it to God, the whole human family participates in that offering and is present to God as if all were offering it.
In my mind I was thinking: ‘If these writings ended up in someone’s hands, this person may say: "She must be a good Christian if the Lord gives her so many graces", not knowing that in spite of all this I am still so bad. Here is how people can deceive themselves, both in good and in evil. Ah, Lord! You alone know the truth, and the depth of the hearts.’ While I was thinking of this, blessed Jesus came and told me: "My beloved, and what if people knew that you are my defender and theirs!"
And I: ‘My Jesus, what are You saying?’ And He: "What? Is it not true that you defend Me from the pains that they give Me by placing yourself between Me and them, and that you take upon yourself the blow that I am about to receive, as well as that which I should pour down upon them? And if sometimes you do not receive it upon yourself, it is because I do not allow it; and this, to your great sorrow, to the point of lamenting to Me. Can you perhaps deny it?"
‘No Lord, I cannot deny it, but I see that it is something that You Yourself have infused in me – this is why I say that it is not because I am good, and I feel all confused in hearing You speak these words to me’