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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 927.

On these two days, I received Holy Communion as an act of

reparation and I said to the Lord Jesus I offer everything today for sinners

let the blows of your justice fall on me and the sea of your mercy engulf the

poor sinners and the Lord heard my prayer. Many souls

returned to the Lord, but I was in agony under the yoke of God's justice. I felt I was the

object of the anger of the Most High God. By evening my sufferings had reached such a stage of

interior desolation that moans welled up involuntarily from my breast.

I locked to the door of my room and began an adoration, that is to say, a holy hour.

Interior desolation and an experience of God's justice, that was my prayer, and the moans and pain that

welled up from my soul took the place of a sweet conversation with the Lord. Then suddenly I saw the

Lord who clasped me to his heart and said to me, my daughter, do not weep, for I cannot bear your tears.

I will grant you everything you ask for, but stop crying. And I was filled with great joy,

and my spirit, as usual, was drowned in him as in its only treasure. Today, encouraged by his

kindness, I conversed with Jesus at greater

length. When I had rested near his sweetest heart, I told him, Jesus, I have so much to tell

you. And the Lord said to me with great love, speak my daughter. And I started to enumerate the pains of my heart,

that is, how greatly concerned I am for all mankind, that they all do not know you, and those

who do know you do not love you as you deserve to be loved. I also see how terribly sinners

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