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 716.

Oh my Jesus, I am making at this very moment a firm and eternal resolution

by virtue of your grace and mercy, fidelity to the tiniest grace of yours.

All night long I was preparing to receive Holy Communion,

since I could not sleep because of physical suffering.

My soul was flooded with love and repentance.

After Holy Communion, I heard these words. You see what you are of yourself, but do not be frightened at this.

If I were to reveal to you the whole misery that you are, you would die of terror.

However, be aware of what you are.

Because you are such great misery, I have revealed to you the whole ocean of my mercy.

I seek and desire souls like yours, but they are few.

Your great trust in me forces me to continuously grant you graces you have great and incomprehensible rights over my heart for you are a daughter of complete trust you would not have been able to bear the magnitude of the love which i have for you if I had revealed it to you fully here on earth.

I often give you a glimpse of it, but know that this is only an exceptional grace from me.

My love and mercy knows no bounds.

Today I heard these words.

Know, my child, that for your sake, I grant blessings to this whole vicinity,

but you ought to thank me on their behalf, as they do not thank me for the kindnesses

I extend to them.

For the sake of your gratitude, I will continue

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