Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey,

reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 470.

One evening, as I looked up from my cell to the sky, Beginning with Diary Entry Number 470.

One evening, as I looked up from my cell to the sky and saw the beautiful star-strewn firmament and the moon,

an inconceivable fire of love for my creator,

welled up within my soul,

and, unable to hear the yearning for him that arose within my soul,

I fell on my face, humbling myself in the dust.

I glorified him for all his works, and when my heart could no longer bear what was going on within me, I wept aloud.

Then my guardian angel touched me and spoke to me these words.

The Lord orders me to tell you to rise from the ground.

I did so immediately, but felt no consolation in my soul.

The yearning for God grew even stronger in me.

One day when I was at adoration and my spirit seemed to be dying for him, and I could no longer hold back my tears,

I saw a spirit of great beauty who spoke these words to me. Don't cry, says the Lord.

After a moment I asked, who are you? He answered me, I am one of the seven spirits who stand

before the throne of God, day and night, and give him ceaseless praise. Yet this spirit did not soothe my yearnings, but

roused me to even greater longing for God. The spirit is very beautiful, and his beauty comes

from close union with God. This spirit does not leave me for a single moment, but accompanies me everywhere.

On the following day, during Holy Mass, before the elevation, this spirit began to sing these

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