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 804.

My Jesus, how little these people talk about you.

They talk about everything but you, Jesus,

and if they talk so little about you,

it is quite probable that they do not think about you at all.

The whole world interests them, but about you, their creator, there is silence. Jesus, I am sad to see this great indifference and in gratitude of creatures.

Oh my Jesus, I want to love you for them and to make a met atonement to you by my love.

Immaculate conception of the Mother of God.

From early morning I felt the nearness of the Blessed Mother.

During Holy Mass I saw her, so lovely and so beautiful,

that I have no words to express even a small

part of this beauty. She was all in white, with a blue sash around her waist. Her cloak was also

blue, and there was a crown on her head. Marvelous light streamed forth from her whole figure.

I am the queen of heaven and earth, but especially the mother of your congregation.

She pressed me to her heart and said,

I feel constant compassion for you.

I felt the force of her immaculate heart which was communicated

to my soul. Now I understand why I have been preparing for this feast for two months

and have been looking forward to it with such yearning. From today onwards I am going to strive

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