Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 1069, March 29th 1937 during meditation today I saw the Lord in great

beauty and he said to me peace be to you my daughter my whole soul trembled with love for him

and I said oh Lord although I love you with all my heart,

please do not appear to me because my spiritual director has told me

that these sudden appearances of yours aroused the suspicion that you could be an illusion.

And although I love you more than my own life,

and I know that you are my Lord and God who are communing with me,

I must above all be obedient to my confessor.

Jesus listened to my words with gravity and kindness and spoke these words to me. Tell your confessor that I commune with your soul in such an intimate manner because you

do not steal my gifts. And this is why I pour all these graces upon your soul, because I know that

you will not hoard them for yourself. But as a sign that his prudence is agreeable to me,

you shall not see me, and I will not appear to you in this way until you have given him an account of what I have

just said. April 2, 1937, in the morning during Mass, I heard these words, tell the superior that I

want adoration to take place here for the intention of imploring mercy for the world.

O my Jesus, you alone know what my heart is going through.

O my strength, you can do all things, and though I expose myself to great sufferings, I shall always remain faithful to you,

because I am sustained by your singular grace.

April 3, 1937, Today the Lord said to me, tell the Reverend Professor, probably Father Theodore, that I desire that on the feast of my mercy, he deliver a sermon about my fathomless mercy.

I fulfilled God's wish, but the priest did not want to acknowledge the Lord's message.

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