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 970.

And all of a sudden, my soul was flooded with the light of the knowledge of God.

A wood that I could express even a little of what my soul experiences

when resting near the heart of the incomprehensible majesty. I cannot put it into words.

Only a soul who has experienced such a grace at least once in his life will recognize it.

When I returned to my room, it seemed to me that I was coming from real life to death.

When the doctor came to take my pulse, he was surprised.

Sister, what happened? You have never had a pulse like this. I would like to know what has

speeded it up so much. What could I tell him? When I myself did not know that my pulse was so rapid?

I only know that I am dying of yearning for God.

But this I did not tell him, for how can medicine help in this instance?

February 19, 1937, contact with the dying.

They ask me for prayer, and I can pray, as the Lord grants me an extraordinary spirit of prayer. I am constantly united with him, and I am fully aware that I

live for souls in order to bring them to your mercy, O Lord. In this matter, no sacrifice is too

insignificant. Today, the doctor decided that I am to stay here until April. It is God's will,

even though I did want to be back in the company of my sisters.

I learned today about the death of one of our sisters who died in Potsk,

but she visited me even before they told me about her death.

February 22, 1937. Today there began in our chapel a retreat for the hospital attendance, although anyone who wishes may take part in it.

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