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 1056.

At 11 o'clock, Jesus said to me, my host, you are refreshment for my

tormented heart. I thought, after these words, that my heart would burn up, and he brought me into

such close intimacy with himself that my heart was espoused to his

heart in a loving union until I could feel the faintest stir of his heart and he of mine.

The fire of my created love was joined to the ardor of his eternal love. This one grace

surpasses all others in its immensity. His trinitarian being enveloped me entirely, and I am

totally immersed in him. My littleness is, as it were, wrestling with this immortal,

mighty one. I am immersed in incomprehensible love, an incomprehensible torture, because of his

passion, all that concerns his being is imparted to me also. Up to now, Jesus has been bringing

me to know about and to have a presentiment of this grace, but today he granted it to me. I would

not even dare to dream about it. My heart is in ceaseless ecstasy, as it were,

although outwardly nothing disturbs my contacts with my neighbor or my attending to various matters.

Nothing is capable of interrupting my ecstasy, nor can anyone suspect it because I have asked God to protect me

from detection by people. And together with this grace, there entered my soul a whole ocean of light,

enabling me to understand God and myself.

Amazement overwhelms me entirely and leads me as if into a new ecstasy aroused by the fact that God has deigned to descend to me, who am so little.

At three o'clock, I prayed prostrate in the form of a cross for the whole world.

Jesus' mortal life was coming to an end.

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