Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche, are 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 743.

Two general resolutions. First, to strive after inner silence and to observe the rule of silence strictly.

Second, faithfulness to interior inspirations,

to bring them into my life and actions according to the advice of my spiritual

director. In this present illness, I desire to glorify the will of God. I will try, as far as I am

able to take part in all the community exercises. I will give the Lord God fervent thanks for every sorrow and

suffering. I often feel that, apart from Jesus, I get no help from anyone, although sometimes

I am very much in need of clarifications concerning the demands of the Lord.

This evening I suddenly received light from God regarding a certain matter.

For 12 years, I have been reflecting on a certain matter and could not understand it.

Today, Jesus gave me to know how much that had pleased him.

The Feast of Christ the King, October 25, 1936. During Holy Mass, I was so enveloped in the great

interior fire of God's love and the desire to save souls that I do not know how to

express it. I feel I am all aflame. I shall fight all evil with the weapon of mercy. I am being

burned up by the desire to save souls.

I traverse the world's length and breath and venture as far as its ultimate limits and

its wildest lands to save souls.

I do this through prayer and sacrifice.

I want every soul to glorify the mercy of God, for each one experiences

the effects of that mercy on himself. The saints in heaven worship the mercy of the Lord.

I want to worship it even now, here on earth, and to spread devotion to it in the way that God demands of me.

I have understood that at certain and most difficult moments I shall be alone, deserted by everyone,

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