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 No. 550.

And always, and in everything everything their intention should be pure for every sort of mixed motive is displeasing to God

They should accuse themselves of all external transgressions and ask the superior for a penance

They should do this in a spirit of humility.

They should love one another with a sublime love,

with a pure love, seeing God's likeness in every sister.

Love should be the special characteristic of this little community,

so they must not close up their hearts, but embrace

the whole world, rendering mercy to every soul through prayer according to their calling.

If we live in this spirit of mercy, we ourselves will obtain mercy.

How great should each one's love for the church be? As a good child

prays for the mother it loves, so also should every Christian soul pray for the church,

its mother. What then should be said of us religious, who have especially committed ourselves

to praying for the church? How great then is our apostolate,

hidden though it be? All our little daily nothings will be placed at the feet of the Lord Jesus

as a propitiatory offering for the world. But in order that our offering may be pleasing to God,

it must be pure. And for it to pleasing to God, it must be pure.

And for it to be pure, the heart must be freed of all natural attachments,

and all its affections must be directed towards the Creator,

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