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 599.

On one occasion, after a person had asked me for prayer, when I met the Lord, I said to him,

Jesus, I especially love those souls whom you love.

And Jesus answered, and as for me, I bestow special graces on those souls for whom you intercede.

How wondrously Jesus defends me!

Truly, this is a great grace of God which I have experienced for a long time now.

Once, when one of our sisters became fatally ill and all the community was gathered together,

there was also a priest there who gave the sister absolution. Suddenly I saw many spirits

of darkness. Then, forgetting that I was with the sisters, I seized the holy water sprinkler

and sprinkled the spirits, and they

disappeared at once. However, when the sisters came to the refectory, Mother Superior

Borja remarked that I should not have sprinkled the sick sister in the presence of the priest,

as this was his duty. I accepted the admonition in the spirit

of penance, but Holy Water is indeed of great help to the dying.

My Jesus, you see how weak I am of myself. Therefore you yourself direct my affairs,

and know, Jesus, that without you you I will not budge for any cause

but with you I will take on the most difficult things January 29th 1936 in the evening when I was in my cell

I saw I suddenly saw a great light and a dark gray cross high up within the light.

Suddenly, I found myself caught up close to the cross.

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