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 79.

O Mary, my mother and my lady, I offer you my soul, my body, my life, and my death,

and all that will follow it.

I place everything in your hands, oh my mother, cover my soul with your virginal mantle, and grant me the grace of purity of heart, soul, and body.

Defend me with your power against all enemies, and especially against those who hide

their malice behind the mask of virtue.

O lovely Lily, you are for me a mirror, O my mother.

O Jesus, divine prisoner of love, when I consider your love and how you emptied yourself for me,

my senses fail me. You hide your inconceivable majesty and lower yourself to miserable me.

O king of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil.

I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease, and all the heavenly powers praising

you without cease, and without cease they are

saying holy, holy, holy.

O who will comprehend your love and your unfathomable mercy toward us?

O prisoner of love, I luck up my poor heart in this tabernacle, that it may adore you without cease night and day.

I know of no obstacle in this adoration, and even though I be physically distant, my heart is always with you.

Nothing can put a stop to my love for you. No obstacles exist for me. Oh, my Jesus, I will console

you for all the ingratitude, the blasphemies, the coldness, the hatred of the wicked, the sacrilegious.

O Jesus, I want to burn as a pure offering and to be consumed before the throne of your hiddenness.

I plead with you unceasingly for poor dying sinners.

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