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 962.

I often see a certain person dear to God.

The Lord has great love for Him, not only because he is striving to spread the veneration of God's mercy,

but also because of the love he has for the Lord God, although he does not always feel this love in his own heart and is almost

always in Getsemini. However, this person is always pleasing to God, and his great patience

will overcome all difficulties. Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness.

Someday we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

The present moment is ours. February 17, 1937. This morning, during Holy Mass, I saw the suffering Jesus.

His passion was imprinted on my body in an invisible manner, but no less painfully.

Jesus looked at me and said,

Souls perish in spite of my bitter passion.

I am giving them the last hope of salvation,

that is, the feast of my mercy.

If they will not adore my mercy, they will perish for all eternity.

Secretary of my mercy, write, tell souls about this great mercy of mine,

because the awful day, the day of my justice, is near.

Today I heard in my soul these words, my daughter, my justice is near.

Today I heard in my soul these words, My daughter, it is time for you to take action.

I am with you.

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