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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 836, O Most Sweet Jesus, who have deigned to allow miserable me to gain a knowledge of your unfathomable

mercy, O most sweet Jesus, who have graciously demanded that I tell the whole world of your incomprehensible

mercy,

this day I take into my hands the two rays that spring from your merciful heart,

that is the blood and the water, and I scatter them all over the globe,

so that each soul may receive your mercy, and, having received it, may glorify it for endless ages. O most sweet Jesus, who, in your incomprehensible kindness, have deigned to unite my wretched

heart to your most merciful heart, it is with your own heart that I glorify God,

our Father, as no soul has ever glorified Him before.

December 21, 1936.

The radio is always playing in the afternoon, so I feel the loss of silence.

All morning long, there is ceaseless talk and noise. My God, I was looking forward to being in

silence, happy that I should be talking only with the Lord, and here it is

just the opposite. Yet nothing disturbs me now, neither the talking nor the radio. In a word,

nothing. By the grace of God, when I am praying, I do not even know where I am.

I know only that my soul is united with the Lord, and thus I pass my days in this hospital.

I marvel at how many humiliations and sufferings that priest accepts in this whole matter. I see this at particular times,

and I support him with my unworthy prayers. Only God can give one such courage, otherwise one would

give up. But I see with joy that all these adversities contribute to God's greater glory.

The Lord has few such souls. O infinite eternity, you will make manifest the efforts of heroic souls

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