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. 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, flowers, and fruit, and has become a beautiful garden for his repose.

My Jesus, despite your graces, I see and feel all my misery.

I begin my day with battle and end it with battle.

As soon as I conquer one obstacle, ten more appear, to take its place.

But I am not worried, because I know that this is the time of struggle, not peace.

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