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Hello, I 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. 5. 5. O Holy Trinity, eternal God, I thank you for allowing me to know the greatness

and the various degrees of glory to which souls attain.

Oh, what a great difference of depth in the knowledge of God there is between one degree and another.

Oh, if people could only know this!

Oh, my God!

If I were thereby able to attain one more degree, I would gladly suffer all the torments of the martyrs put together.

Truly, all those torments seem as nothing to me, compared with the glory that is awaiting us for all eternity.

O Lord, immerse my soul in the ocean of your divinity and grant me the grace of knowing you.

For the better I know you, the more I desire you, and the more my love for you grows.

I feel in my soul an unfathomable abyss which only God can fill. I lose myself in him as a drop does

in the ocean. The Lord has inclined himself to my misery like a ray of the sun upon a barren and rocky desert,

and yet under the influence of his rays my soul has become covered with verdure,

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