Hello, I 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 1005. thousand five Jesus Mary and Joseph Krakow March 1st

1937 third notebook God and souls let the glory and praise to the divine mercy rise

from every creature throughout all ages and times.

O my Lord and God, you command me to write about the graces you grant me.

O my Jesus, were it not for a clear command from my confessors that I am to write down what

goes on in my soul, I would not, of my own

choice, write a single word. And so, if I do write about myself, it is at the formal command

of holy obedience. Praise and glory be to you, O Holy Trinity, eternal God.

May the mercy springing from your very bowels protect us from your just anger.

Let the praise of your incomprehensible mercy resound everywhere.

All your works bear the seal of your unfathomable mercy, O God.

March 1, 1937. The Lord gave me to know how displeased he is with a talkative soul. I find

no rest in such a soul. The constant din tires me, and in the midst of it the soul cannot discern my voice.

Today I ask the Lord Jesus to let me meet with a certain person, and this would be a sign for me

that he is calling her to this convent which I am to found. And I did meet her and understood that this soul

has a vocation, and I asked the Lord to deign to form her himself. I have talked to her often about a

vocation. The Lord will do the rest. March 5, 1937. Today I experienced the passion of the Lord Jesus in my own body for a long while.

The pain is very great, but all this is for the sake of immortal souls.

Today the Lord visited me, pressed me to his heart and said,

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