Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 733.

It sometimes happens while I am listening to the meditation

that one word puts me in very close union with the Lord

and I no longer know what Father is saying.

I know that I am close to the most merciful heart of Jesus.

My whole spirit is entirely plunged in him,

and in one moment I learn more than during long hours of intellectual inquiry and meditation.

These are sudden lights which permit me to know things as God sees them, regarding matters

of both the interior and the exterior world.

I see that Jesus himself is acting in my soul during this retreat, and as for me, I try only

to be faithful to His grace I have submitted my

soul completely to the influence of God this mighty ruler of heaven has taken

entire possession of my soul I feel that I am being lifted up above earth and heaven into the inner life of God,

where I come to know the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but always in the unity of Majesty.

I will enclose myself in the chalice of Jesus, so that I may comfort Him continually. I will enclose myself in the chalice of Jesus so that I may comfort him continually.

I will do everything within my power to save souls, and I will do it through prayer and suffering.

I try always to be a Bethany for Jesus, so that he may rest here after all his labors.

In Holy Communion, my union with Jesus is so intimate and incomprehensible that even if I want

to describe it in writing, I could not do so, because I lack the words.

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