Hello, I have 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 Cavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 818.

December 16, 1936.

I have offered this day for Russia.

I have offered all my sufferings and prayers for that poor country.

After Holy Communion, Jesus said to me,

I cannot suffer that country any longer.

Do not tie my hands, my daughter.

I understood that if it had not been for the prayers of souls that are pleasing to God,

the whole nation would have already been reduced to nothingness.

Oh, how I suffer for that nation which has banished God from its borders!

O inexhaustible spring of divine mercy, pour yourself out upon us.

Your goodness knows no limits.

Confirm, O Lord, the power of your mercy over the abyss of my misery,

for you have no limit to your mercies. Wonderful and matchless is your mercy,

astonishing the human and angelic mind. My guardian angel told me to pray for certain soul, and in the morning, I learned that it

was a man whose agony had begun that very moment. The Lord Jesus makes it known to me in a special way

when someone is in need of my prayer. I especially know when my prayer is needed by a dying soul. This happens

more often now than it did in the past. The Lord Jesus gave me to know how very pleasing

to him is a soul who lives in accordance with the will of God. It thereby gives very great glory to God.

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