St. Faustina's unquenchable love for precious Jesus and her God given mission of bringing all mankind to love and to trust in the unfathomable mercy of Our Lord's sorrowful Heart, led her to a life of sacrificial suffering and intercessory prayer for souls. When we trust in His Mercy, we glorify God. When we intercede with prayer for sinners, we participate in God's Divine Mercy. We accept our special role in God's plan for the salvation of mankind. We allow God to grant mercy to those who refuse it or will not ask for it on their own. Many souls are lost because no one is praying for them. When we pray for mercy, the Holy Spirit enters our souls. We are filled with God's mercy and we can then transfer it to other souls. Souls of the living, the dying and the deceased all benefit from our intercessory prayer. . . God is not constrained by time and space as are we . . . All of our prayer is desired and used by God, He desires to shower sinners with His unfathomable Love, Mercy, forgiveness, and eternal salvation.

"O you small, everyday sacrifices, you are to me like wild flowers which, I strew over the feet of my beloved Jesus . . . " Uniting ourselves to Divine Mercy involves uniting our hearts with the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus on the cross. St. Faustina offered herself often as a martyr, asking Jesus to exchange her consolations and joy of heart for the suffering and pain of others for the consolation and salvation of others. She endured from God an excruciating crown of thorns for three hours to save a priest from mortal sin. She suffered great sacrifice and suffering on behalf of her sister, Wanda. A great darkness had come over her sister and God entrusted the suffering and sanctity of Faustina to redeem and save her sister's soul. We may not be capable of such great sanctity, but our small mortifications, prayers, sacrifices, trials and sufferings, united with Jesus on the Cross, become graces for the salvation of all mankind. (Diary 324) "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." Jesus did not condemn us but interceded on our behalf with His compassion and His Divine Mercy. 

God speaks to all of us in His still, quiet voice . . . to be an instrument in God's plan for mercy we need to practice an interior silence so as to hear God speaking to each of our souls. Mother Teresa reveals, "In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you." St. Faustina stresses, "The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous." (Diary 552)

"The silent soul is capable of attaining close union with God . . ." (Diary 477) 

When our ears are silent we can hear Holy God and the poor speaking. We block words of darkness, unrest and division.

When our tongue is silent, we praise and glorify God, refraining from gossip and judging. 

When our mind is silent, we hear God's love for us. Selfish thoughts and sinful desires are banished.

When we silently refrain from defending ourselves in unfair criticism, we glorify God.

When we let God be our "everything," our life itself becomes a joyous prayer. (Diary 296) "My life is not drab or monotonous, but it is varied like a garden of fragrant flowers, so that I don't know which flower to pick first, the lily of suffering or the rose fo love of neighbor or the violet of humility."