Hello, I've 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 615.

March 1, 1936. Today, during Holy Mass, I experienced a strange force and urge to start

realizing God's wishes. I had such a clear understanding of the things the Lord was asking of me that truly, if I were to

say that I do not understand what God is demanding from me, I would be lying, because the Lord

is making his will known to me so clearly and distinctly that I do not have the least shadow of a

doubt about them. I realize that it would be the greatest ingratitude to delay any longer

this undertaking which the Lord wishes to bring to fulfilment for his glory

and the benefit of a great number of souls.

And he is using me as a miserable tool through which to realize his eternal plans of

mercy. Truly, how ungrateful my soul would be to resist God's will any longer. Nothing will stop me

any longer, be it persecution, sufferings, sneers, threats, entreaties, hunger, cold, flattery,

friendships, adversities, friends, or enemies, be it things I am experiencing now,

or things that will come in the future, or even the hatred of hell, nothing will deter me from doing the

will of God. I am not counting on my own strength, but on his omnipotence, for as he gave me

the grace of knowing his holy will, he will also grant me the grace of fulfilling it. I cannot fail to mention how much my own

lower nature resists this thing, manifesting its own desires, and there results within my soul a

great struggle like that of Jesus in the Garden of Olives. And so I too cry out to God, the Eternal Father,

if it be possible, take this cup from me,

but nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.

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