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 1255.

As concerns yourself, sister, it is good that you are remaining in a state of

holy indifference in everything that pertains to the will of God and that you are better maintaining

a state of equilibrium. Please do your best to keep this equanimity.

Now as regards all these matters, you are to depend exclusively on Father Andrash.

I am in complete agreement with him.

Do nothing on your own, sister, but in all matters, take counsel from your spiritual director.

I beg you to keep your level-headedness and as great a calm as possible.

One more thing. I am having printed the chaplet which is to be on the back of the image,

as well as the invocations that resemble a litany. These two will be placed on the back. Another large image has also

been printed and with it a few pages which contain the novena to the divine mercy. Pray,

sister, that this be approved. August 30th, Reverend Father Sopocho left this morning. When I was steeped in a prayer of

Thanksgiving for the great grace that I had received from God, namely that of seeing Father,

I became united in a special way with the Lord who said to me, he is a priest after my own heart.

His efforts are pleasing to me.

You see, my daughter, that my will must be done, and that which I had promised you I shall do.

Through him, I spread comfort to suffering and careworn souls.

Through him, it pleased me to proclaim the worship of my mercy. And through this work of

mercy, more souls will come close to me than otherwise would have, even if he had kept giving

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