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 560.

Thursday. I felt urged to undertake with diary entry number 560.

Thursday. I felt urged to undertake as soon as possible

the task which the Lord was asking of me.

While making my confession,

I was holding to my own opinion over that of the confessor.

At first I did not realize this, but when I was making

my holy hour, I saw the Lord Jesus as he appears in the image, and he told me that I must

repeat to my confessor and my superiors everything he says to me or asks of me, and do only what you receive permission to do.

And he gave me to know how displeased he was with persons who are self-willed,

and I recognized that I was one of these.

I saw this shadow of self-will in myself, and I threw myself in the dust,

before His Majesty, and with a broken heart begged his pardon. But Jesus did not let me remain

in this state for long. His divine gaze filled my heart with such joy that I have no words to express it. And Jesus gave me to

know that I should ask him more questions and seek his advice. Truly, how sweet is the look of my Lord.

His eyes penetrate my soul to its most secret depths. My spirit communicates

with God without any word being spoken. I am aware that he is living in me and I in him.

All at once I saw the image in some small chapel, and at that moment I saw that the chapel

became an enormous and beautiful temple, and in this temple I saw the mother of God with the

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