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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 1170, June 30th 1937 today the Lord said to me I have wanted to

exalt this congregation many times but I am unable to do so because of its pride

know my daughter that I do not grant my graces to proud souls,

and I even take away from them the graces I have granted.

Today, Sister Yolanta asked me to make an agreement with her.

She will pray for me, and I am to pray for the girls in her class in Vilnius.

As for me, I always pray for our work, but I have resolved to pray for the class in Vilnius for two months,

and Sister Yolanta will say three Hail Marys to the incarnate word every day for the intention that I might profit from God's

grace. Our friendship has deepened. July 1, 1937, the month of July. Today, during the Angelus,

the Lord gave me an understanding of God's incomprehensible love for people.

He lifts us up to his very Godhead. His only motives are love and faith-fathomless mercy.

Though you make known the mystery to us through an angel, you yourself carry it out.

In spite of the profound peace my soul is enjoying, I am struggling continuously,

and it is often a hard-fought battle for me to walk faithfully along my path,

that is, the path which the Lord Jesus wants me to follow.

And my path is to be faithful to the will of God in all things and at all times,

especially by being faithful to inner inspirations in order to be a receptive instrument in God's hands for the carrying

out of the work of his fathomless mercy.

July 4, 1937, first Sunday of the month, monthly retreat.

This evening I prepared with great care and prayed long to the

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