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 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 worshipping 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.

Oh, 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 the earth.

O Jesus, my love extends beyond the world to the soul's suffering and purgatory, and I want

to exercise mercy toward them by means of indulgence to prayers.

God's mercy is unfathomable and inexhaustible, just as God himself is

unfathomable. Even if I were to use the strongest words there are to express this mercy of God,

all this would be nothing in comparison with what it really is, what it is in reality.

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