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 1043.

This day, the 23rd, that is Tuesday of Holy Week, is a day on which the Lord

has granted me many graces. Suddenly, God's presence took hold of me, and at once I saw myself

in Rome, in the Holy Father's Chapel, and at the same time I was in our chapel,

and the celebration of the Holy Father and the entire church was closely connected with our chapel,

and in a very special way with our congregation.

And I took part in the solemn celebration simultaneously here and in Rome, for the celebration

was so closely connected with Rome that even as I write I cannot distinguish the two, but

I am writing it down as I saw it.

I saw the Lord Jesus in our chapel exposed in the monstrance on the high altar.

The chapel was adorned as for a feast, and on that day anyone who wanted to come was allowed in.

The crowd was so enormous that the eye could not take it all in.

Everyone was participating in the celebrations with great joy, and many of them obtained what they desired.

The same celebration was held in Rome, in a beautiful church, and the Holy Father, with all the clergy,

was celebrating this feast, and then suddenly I saw St. Peter, who stood between the altar and the Holy Father. I could not hear what St. Peter said, but I saw that the Holy Father understood his words.

Then some clergymen, whom I did not know, began to examine me and to humiliate me, or rather, what I had written,

but I saw how Jesus himself was defending me and giving them to understand what they did not know.

Then, suddenly, I saw how the two rays, as painted in the image, issued from the host and spread over the whole world.

This lasted only a moment, but it seemed as though it had lasted all day,

and our chapel was overcrowded all day long, and the whole day abounded in joy.

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