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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 1264. Act of total abandonment to the will of God, which is for me love and mercy itself.

Act of oblation. Jesus, host, whom I have this very moment received into my heart, through this

union with you, I offer myself to the Heavenly Father as a sacrificial host,

abandoning myself totally and completely to the most merciful and holy will of my God.

From today onward, your will, Lord, is my food.

Take my whole being, dispose of me as you please, is my food. Take my whole being. Dispose of me as you please. Whatever your fatherly hand

gives me, I will accept with submission, peace, and joy. I fear nothing, no matter in what direction

you lead me. Helped by your grace, I will carry out everything you demand of me.

I no longer fear any of your inspirations, nor do I probe anxiously to see where they will lead me.

Lead me, O God, along whatever roads you please. I have placed all my trust in your will, which is, for me,

love and mercy itself. Bid me to stay in this convent, I will stay. Bid me to undertake

the work, I will undertake it. Leave me in uncertainty about the work until I die. Be blessed. Give me death

when, humanly speaking, my life seems particularly necessary. Be blessed. Should you take me in my youth?

Be blessed. Should you let me live to a ripe old age? Be blessed. Should you give me health and strength? Be blessed. Should you confine me to a bed of pain for my whole life? Be blessed. Should you give only failures and disappointments in life? Be blessed. Should you allow my purest intentions to be

condemned? Be blessed. Should you enlighten my mind? Be blessed. Should you leave me in darkness and

all kinds of torments? Be blessed. From this moment on, I live in the deepest peace, because the Lord himself is carrying me in the hollow of his hand.

He, Lord of unfathomable mercy, knows that I desire him alone in all things, always, and everywhere. Prayer. Oh, Jesus, stretch out upon the

cross, stretched out upon the cross, I implore you, give me the grace of doing faithfully the most

holy will of your father, in all things, always and everywhere.

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