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 857.

In the evening, I prayed for a few hours, first for my parents and relatives, for Mother General,

and for the whole congregation, for our students, and for three priests,

probably Archbishop Yalbjikovsky, Father Sopochko and Father Andrash, to whom I owe very much.

I ran the length and breadth of the whole world and thanked the unfathomable mercy of God for all the graces granted to people,

and I begged pardon for everything by which they have offended

him. During Vespers, I saw the Lord Jesus, who looked sweetly and profoundly into my soul. My daughter,

have patience. It won't be long now.

That profound look and those words filled my soul with strength and power, courage,

and extraordinary trust that I would carry out everything he was demanding of me, despite

such tremendous difficulties, and filled me with a special conviction that the Lord is

with me, and that with him I can do all things. All the powers on earth and in hell are as nothing

to me. Everything must fall before the power of his name.

I entrust everything into your hands,

O my Lord and God,

sole commander of my soul.

Direct me according to your eternal desires.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Krakowow Pradnik, January 1, 1937. Jesus, I trust in you.

Today, at midnight, I bid goodbye to the old year 1936 and welcomed the year 1937. It was with fear and trembling that in this first hour of the year,

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