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 No. 866.

During Vespers, I heard these words. My daughter, I want to repose in your

heart because many souls have thrown me out of their hearts today. I have experienced sorrow unto death.

I try to comfort the Lord by offering him my love, a thousand times over. I felt

within my soul a great disgust for sin. My heart is steeped in continual bitterness because I want to go

to you, Lord, into the fullness of life. Oh, Jesus,

what a dreadful wilderness this life seems to me. There is on this earth no nourishment for

either my heart or my soul. I suffer because of my longing for you, O Lord. You have left me the sacred host, O Lord,

but it inkindles in my soul an even greater longing for you, O my Creator and eternal God.

Jesus, I yearn to be come united with you, deign to hear the size of your dearly beloved. Oh, how I suffer,

because I am still unable to be united with you, but let it be done according to your wishes.

January 5, 1937, this evening I saw a certain priest, probably Father Sopocho, who was in need of prayer

for a certain matter. I prayed fervently because the matter is very close to my heart as well.

Thank you, Jesus, for this kindness. O Jesus, have mercy. Embrace the whole world and press me to your heart.

O Lord, let my soul repose in the sea of your unfathomable mercy. January 6, 1937. Today, during Holy Mass,

I was unwittingly absorbed in the infinite majesty of God.

The whole immensity of God's love flooded my soul.

At that particular moment, I became aware of how much God abases himself for my sake.

He, the Lord of Lords, and what am I, miserable being that I am, that you would

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