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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 782.

I am very weak today. I cannot even make my meditation in the chapel, but must

lie down. Oh my Jesus, I love you, and I want to worship you with my very weakness, submitting

myself entirely to your holy will. I must be on my guard, especially today, because I am becoming

oversensitive to everything. Things I would not pay any attention to when I am healthy,

bother me today. Oh, my Jesus, my shield and my strength, grant me your grace that I may emerge victorious from these combats.

O my Jesus, transform me into yourself by the power of your love, that I may be a worthy tool in proclaiming your mercy.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts because I have time to converse

with the Lord Jesus. It is my delight to spend long hours at the feet of the hidden God,

and the hours pass like minutes as I lose track of time. I feel that a fire is burning within me, and I understand

no other life but that of sacrifice, which flows from pure love. November 29, 1936,

the mother of God has taught me how to prepare for the feast of Christmas. I saw her

today without the infant Jesus. She said to me, my daughter, strive after silence and humility,

so that Jesus, who dwells in your heart continuously, may be able to rest.

Adore him in your heart. Do not go out from your inmost being.

My daughter, I shall obtain for you the grace of an interior life, which will be such that,

without ever leaving that interior life,

you will be able to carry out all your external duties with even greater care.

Dwell with him, continuously in your own heart.

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