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 571.

Oh my Jesus, eternal truth, I fear nothing, neither hardships nor sufferings.

I fear only one thing, and that is to offend you. My Jesus, I would rather not exist than make

you sad. Jesus, you know that my love knows no one but you.

My soul is absorbed in you.

Oh, how great should be the ardor of every soul who will live in that convent

since God desires to come and live with us.

Let everyone remember that if we religious do not intercede before God, who will?

Each of us should burn like a pure sacrifice before the majesty of God.

But to be pleasing to God, each one should unite herself closely to Jesus.

It is only with him, in him, and through him, that we can be pleasing to God.

December 21, 1935.

One day, my confessor, Father Sopochko, told me to go and look at a certain house to see whether it was the same house I had seen in my vision.

When I went with my confessor to see that house, or rather those ruins, at a glance I recognized that they were the same as I had seen in my vision.

The moment I touched the boards which had been nailed together in place of the doors, a strength pervaded my soul like a flash, giving me unshakable certitude.

I went away quickly from that place, my heart full of joy,

for it seemed to me that there was a certain force chaining me to that place, my heart full of joy, for it seems to me that there was a certain force

chaining me to that place. I am very happy to see that everything agrees perfectly with what

I saw in the vision. When the confessor spoke to me about the arrangement of the cells and other

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