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 1062.

I made an hour of adoration in Thanksgiving for the graces,

which had been granted me and for my illness. Illness also is a great grace. I have been ill for

four months, but I do not recall having wasted so much as a minute of it.

All has been for God and souls.

I want to be faithful to him everywhere.

During this adoration, I realized the utter care and goodness that Jesus has been lavishing upon me

and the protection he has given me against

all evil. I thank you especially, Jesus, for visiting me in my solitude, and I thank you also for

inspiring my superiors to send me for this treatment. Give them, Jesus, the omnipotence of your blessing and compensate them for all the losses

incurred because of me. Today, Jesus is bidding me to comfort and reassure a certain soul

who has opened herself to me and told me about her difficulties.

The soul is pleasing to the Lord, but she is not aware of it.

God is keeping her in deep humility.

I have carried out the Lord's directives.

O my most sweet master, good Jesus, I give you my heart. You shape and mold it after your liking.

O fathomless love, I open the calyx of my heart to you, like a rosebud to the freshness of dew.

To you alone, my betrothed, is known the fragrance of the flower of my heart. Let the fragrance of my sacrifice be pleasing to you.

O immortal God, my everlasting delight, already here on earth, you are my heaven. May every beat of my heart be a new

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