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 948.

February 13, 1937.

Today, during the Passion Service,

I saw Jesus being tortured and crowned with thorns

and holding a reed in his hand.

Jesus was silent as the soldiers were bustling about,

vying with each other in torturing him.

Jesus said nothing, but just looked at me, and in that gaze I felt his pain, so terrible

that we have not the faintest idea of how much he suffered for us before he was crucified. My soul was filled with pain and longing.

In my soul, I felt great hatred for sin, and even the smallest infidelity on my part

seems to me like a huge mountain for which I must expiate by mortification and penance.

When I see Jesus tormented, my heart is torn to pieces,

and I think, what will become of sinners if they do not take advantage of the passion of Jesus?

In his passion, I see a whole sea of mercy.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, February 12, 1937,

God's love is the flower, mercy, the fruit.

Let the doubting soul read these considerations on divine mercy and become trusting.

Divine mercy, gushing forth from the bosom of the Father, I trust in you. Divine mercy,

greatest attribute of God, I trust in you.

Divine mercy, incomprehensible mystery, I trust in you.

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