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That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. 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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 1035. This evening a certain young man was dying. He was suffering

terribly. For his intention I began to say the chaplet which the Lord had taught me. I said it all, but the agony continued.

I wanted to start the litany of the saints, but suddenly I heard the words, say the chaplet.

I understood that the soul needed the special help of prayers and great mercy,

and so I locked myself in my room and fell prostrate before God

and begged for mercy upon that soul. Then I felt the great majesty of God and his great justice.

I trembled with fear, but did not stop begging the Lord's mercy for that soul. Then I took the cross off my breast,

the crucifix I had received when making my vows, and I put it on the chest of the dying man,

and said to the Lord, Jesus, look on this soul, with the same love with which you looked on my

holocaust on the day of my perpetual

vows, and by the power of the promise which you made to me in respect to the dying, and those who would

invoke your mercy on them, grant this man the grace of a happy death. His suffering then ceased, and he died peacefully. Oh, how much we should

pray for the dying. Let us take advantage of mercy while there is still time for mercy. I realized

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