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 772, Great is the mutual exchange between the soul and God.

When the soul leaves its concealment, the senses get a taste of what the soul has delighted in.

Although this is also a great grace from God, it is not a purely spiritual one,

for in the first moments the senses do not take part. Every grace gives the soul power and strength

to act and courage to suffer. The soul knows very well what God is asking of it, and it carries out

his holy will despite adversities. Yet the soul cannot proceed on its own in these matters.

It must follow the advice of an enlightened confessor, for otherwise it could go astray or gain no profit.

Oh my Jesus, I understand well that just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness, so also in the spiritual life,

suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.

My goal is God, and my happiness is in accomplishing His will, and nothing in the world can disturb this

happiness for me, no power, no force of any kind.

The Lord visited myself today and said to me, My daughter, I will not leave you in this

community for much longer.

I am telling you this so that you will be more diligent in taking advantage of the graces

which I grant you.

November 27, 1936, Today I was in heaven, in spirit, and I saw its inconceivable beauties and the happiness

that awaits us after death. I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God.

I saw how great is happiness in God, which spreads to all creatures, making them

happy, and then all the glory and praise which springs from this happiness returns to its source,

and they enter into the depths of God, contemplating the inner life of God, the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit, whom they will never comprehend or fathom. This source of happiness

is unchanging in its essence, but it is always new, gushing forth happiness for all creatures.

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