Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 5 526 The 14th

This Thursday, when we were having nocturnal adoration,

At first I could not pray, a sort of dryness engulfed me.

I could not meditate on Jesus' sorrowful passion.

So I lay prostrate and offer the most sorrowful

passion of the Lord Jesus to the Heavenly Father in reparation for the sins of all the world.

When I got to my feet after this prayer and walked to my kneeler, I suddenly saw Jesus next to it.

The Lord Jesus appeared as he was during the scourging.

In his hands he was holding a white garment with which he clothed me, and a cord with which he girded me,

and he covered me with a red cloak like the one he was clothed with during his passion and a veil of the same color. And he said to me, this is how you and your companions are to be clothed.

My life from birth to death on the cross will be the rule for you.

Fix your eyes upon me and live according to what you

see. I desire that you penetrate into my spirit more deeply and understand that I am meek and

humble of heart.

On one occasion I felt an urge to set to work and fulfill whatever God is demanding

of me.

I entered the chapel for a moment and heard a voice in my soul saying, Why are you afraid?

Do you think that I will not have enough omnipotence to support you?

At that moment my soul felt extraordinary strength, and all the adversities that could befall it in carrying out God's will seemed as nothing to me.

On Friday, during Mass, when my soul was flooded with God's

happiness, I heard these words in my soul. My mercy has passed into souls through the divine

human heart of Jesus as a ray from the sun passes through crystal.

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