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 663.

July 22nd, Oh my Jesus, I know that a person's greatness is evidenced by his

deeds and not by his words or feelings. It is the works that have come from us that will speak

about us. My Jesus, do not allow me to daydream, but give me the courage and

strength to fulfill your holy will. Jesus, if you wish to leave me in uncertainty, even to the

end of my life, may your holy name be blessed. June.

Oh my Jesus, how immensely I rejoice at the assurance you have given me that the congregation

will come into being.

I no longer have the least shadow of a doubt about this, and I see how great is the glory

which it will give to God. It will be the reflection

of God's greatest attribute, that is, His divine mercy. Unceasingly, they will intercede for

divine mercy for themselves and for the whole world, and every act of mercy will flow from God's love, that love with which

they will be filled to overflowing. They will strive to make their own this great attribute of God,

and to live by it, and to bring others to know it, and to trust in the goodness of the Lord.

This congregation of divine mercy will be in God's church like a beehive in a magnificent

garden, hidden and meek. The sisters will work like bees to feed their neighbor's

souls with honey, while the wax will flame for the glory of God.

June 29, 1936. Father Andrash told me to make a novena for the intention of knowing better the will of God.

I prayed ardently, adding a certain bodily mortification.

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