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 1102.

There are, in my life, times and moments of spiritual insight,

that is, divine illuminations, when the soul receives inward instruction about things it has not read in any book

and has not been taught by any person.

These are times of great inner knowledge which God himself imparts to the soul.

These are great mysteries. I often receive light and the knowledge of the interior life of God and of God's intimate disposition.

And this fills me with unutterable trust and a joy that I cannot contain within myself.

I desire to dissolve completely in him.

The quintessence of love is sacrifice and suffering.

Truth wears a crown of thorns.

Prayer involves the intellect, the will, and the emotions.

Today there was a beautiful teaching by Father Plaza on the goodness and mercy of God.

During this conference, my soul experienced the flames of God's love,

and I understood that God's word is a living word.

My particular examine is still the same, namely, union with the merciful Christ and silence.

The flower which I lay at the feet of the mother of God for May is my practice of silence. Virtue without prudence

is not virtue at all. We should often pray to the Holy Spirit for this grace of prudence. Prudence

consists in discretion, rational reflection, and courageous resolution.

The final decision is always up to us.

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