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 709 October 3, 1936

During the Rosary today, I suddenly saw a suborium with the Blessed Sacrament.

The suborium was uncovered and quite filled with hosts.

From the suborium came a voice. These hosts have been received by souls

converted through your prayer and suffering. At this point, I felt God's presence as a child would.

I felt strangely like a child. When one day I felt I would be unable to carry on till nine and asked S.N. for something

to eat because I was going to bed earlier, as I was not feeling well, S.N. answered,

But you are not ill, sister.

They only wanted you to have some rest, so they made up the illness.

Oh my Jesus, my illness is so far advanced that the doctor has separated me from the sisters

to prevent them from becoming infected, and yet one is judged in this way. But that's good. All this

is for you, my Jesus. I do not want to write much about external matters, for they are not the

reason for my writing. I want in particular to note the graces granted me by the Lord, because these

are not only for me, but for many other souls as well. October 5, 1936. Today I received a letter

from Father Sopochoco. I learned that he intends to publish a holy card of the merciful Christ.

He asked me to send him a certain prayer, which he wants to put on the back, if he receives the Archbishop's approbation.

Oh, what great joy fills my heart that God has let me see this work of his

mercy. How great is this work of the most high God? I am but his instrument. Oh, how ardently I desire

to see this feast of the divine mercy which God is demanding through me. But if it is the will of God

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