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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 691.

Thursday.

Although I was very tired today, I nevertheless resolved to make a holy hour.

I could not pray, nor could I remain kneeling, but I remained in prayer

for a whole hour, and united myself in spirit with those souls who are already worshiping God

in the perfect way. But towards the end of the hour, I suddenly saw Jesus, who looked at me penetratingly,

and said with ineffable sweetness,

Your prayer is extremely pleasing to me.

After these words, an unusual power and spiritual joy entered my soul.

God's presence continued to pervade my soul. O, what happens to a soul that meets the Lord face to face,

no pen has ever expressed or ever will express.

O Jesus, I understand that your mercy is beyond all imagining, and therefore I ask you to make my heart

so big that there will be room in it for the needs of all the souls living on the face of

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