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 83.

Write this, Before I come as the Just Judge, with Diary Entry Number 83.

Write this, Before I come as the just judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy.

Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort.

All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be

great darkness over the whole earth. Then the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky,

and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth

great lights, which will light up the earth for a period of time.

This will take place shortly before the last day.

O blood and water which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us,

I trust in you.

Vilnius August 2nd, 1934.

On Friday, after Holy Communion, I was carried in spirit before the throne of God.

There I saw the heavenly powers which incessantly praise God.

Beyond the throne I saw a brightness inaccessible to creatures, and there only the

incarnate word enters as mediator. When Jesus entered this light, I heard these words. Write down at

once what you hear. I am the Lord in my essence, and am immune to orders or needs.

If I call creatures into being, that is the abyss of my mercy.

And at that very moment I found myself, as before, in our chapel, at my kneeler, just as Mass had ended.

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