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 Kowalska, from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 725.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Krakow, Beginning with Diary Entry Number 725.

Jesus Mary and Joseph, Krakow, 1936.

O divine will, be my love.

Eight-day retreat, October 20, 1936.

My Jesus, I am going into the wilderness today to speak only with you, my master, and my Lord. Let the earth be silent, and you alone speak to me, Jesus.

You know that I understand no other voice but yours.

O good shepherd, in the dwelling of my heart is that wilderness

in which no creature has access. There, you alone, are king. When I entered the chapel for a five-minute

adoration, I asked the Lord Jesus how I should conduct myself during this retreat.

Then I heard this voice in my soul.

I desire that you be entirely transformed into love and that you burn ardently as a pure victim of love.

Eternal truth, give me a ray of your light, that I may come to know you, O Lord, and worthily glorify your infinite mercy, and at the same time, grant me to know myself

the whole abyss of misery that I am.

I have chosen St. Claude de la Colombert and St. Gertrude as my patron saints for this retreat,

that they may intercede for me before the Mother of God and the merciful Savior.

During the meditation on creation, at a certain point, my soul became closely united to its

Lord and Creator. In this union, I recognize the purpose and destiny of my life.

My purpose is to become closely united to God through love,

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