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 88. During adoration, I felt God close to me. A moment later,

I saw Jesus and Mary. At the sight of them, I was filled with joy, and I asked the Lord,

what is your will, Jesus, concerning the matter about which my confessor told me to ask you?

Jesus replied, It is my will that he should remain here, and that he should not take the initiative

of dispensing himself. I asked Jesus whether the inscription could be Christ King of Mercy. He answered,

I am King of Mercy, but he did not say Christ.

I desire that this image be displayed in public on the first Sunday after Easter. That Sunday is

the feast of mercy. Through the word incarnate, I make known the bottomless depth of my mercy.

Strangely, all things came about, just as the Lord had requested.

In fact, it was on the first Sunday after Easter, April 1935, that the image was publicly

honored by crowds of people for the first time. For three days it was exposed and received

public veneration, since it was placed at the very top of a window at Ostra Brahma,

Shrine of Our Lady, above the eastern gate to the city of Vilnius. It could be seen from a great

distance. At Ostra Brahma, during these three days, the closing of the

Jubilee of the Redemption of the World was being celebrated, marking the 1900 years that have

passed since the passion of our Savior. I see now that the work of redemption is bound up with the

work of mercy requested by the Lord.

One day I saw interiorly how much my confessor would have to suffer.

Friends will desert you while everyone will rise up against you and your physical strength

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