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 1189. A sentence from St. Vincent to Paul,

The Lord always sets his hand to a task when he removes all human means

and orders us to do a thing that exceeds our strength.

Jesus, from all my wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls.

But the wound in my heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy.

From this fountain spring all graces for souls.

The flames of compassion burn me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls.

Speak to the whole world about my mercy. As long as we live, the love of God grows in us.

Until we die, we ought to strive for the love of God. I have learned and

experienced that souls living in love are distinguished in this, that they are greatly enlightened

concerning the things of God, both in their own souls and in the souls of others.

And simple souls, without an education, are outstanding for their knowledge.

At the fourteenth station, I get the strange feeling that Jesus is going into the ground. When my soul is in anguish, I think only in this way.

Jesus is good and full of mercy, and even if the ground were to give way under my feet,

I would not cease to trust in him.

Today I have heard these words.

My daughter, delight of my heart, it is with pleasure that I look into your soul.

I bestow many graces only because of you.

I also withhold my punishments only because of you. You restrain me, and I cannot

vindicate the claims of my justice. You bind my hands with your love. July 13, 1937. Today, Jesus has

given me light as to how I should behave toward one of the sisters

who had asked me about many spiritual matters concerning which she had doubts. But basically,

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