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 Enter No. 68484 Holy Hour Thursday during this hour of

prayer Jesus allowed me to enter the senacle and I was a witness to what happened

there however I was most deeply moved when before the consecration

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven

and entered into a mysterious conversation with his father.

It is only in eternity that we shall really understand that moment.

His eyes were like two flames.

His face was radiant, white as snow. His whole personage full of majesty,

his soul, full of longing. At the moment of consecration, love rested, saciated, the sacrifice

fully consummated. Now only the external ceremony of death will be carried out.

External destruction. The essence of it is in the senical. Never in my whole life had I understood this mystery so profoundly as during that hour of adoration.

Oh, how ardently I desire that the whole world would come to know this unfathomable mystery.

After the Holy Hour, when I went to my cell, I suddenly learned how greatly God was offended by a certain person who was close to my heart.

At the sight of this, my soul was pierced with pain, and I cast myself in the dust before the Lord,

begging his mercy. For two hours, in tears, prayers and flagellation, I prevented the sin, and I learned that

God's mercy had embraced that poor soul. O, the price of one single sin. September, 1st Friday.

In the evening, I saw the mother of God with her breast-beard and

pierced with a sword. She was shedding bitter tears and shielding us against God's terrible

punishment. God wants to inflict terrible punishment on us, but he cannot because the Mother of God is shielding us.

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