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 1275.

My secretary, write that I am more generous toward sinners than toward the just.

It was for their sake that I came down from heaven.

It was for their sake that my blood was spilled.

Let them not fear to approach me.

They are most in need of my mercy.

September 16, 1937.

I wanted very much to make a holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament today, but God's will was otherwise.

At eight o'clock I was seized with such violent pains that I had to go to bed at once.

I was convulsed with pain for three hours, that is, until 11 o'clock at night. No medicine had any

effect on me, and whatever I swallowed I threw up. At times the pains caused me to lose consciousness.

Jesus had me realize that in this way I took part in his agony in the garden,

and that he himself allowed these sufferings in order to offer reparation to God

for the souls murdered in the wombs of wicked mothers.

I have gone through these sufferings three times now. They always start at 8 o'clock in the evening and last until 11. No medicine

can lessen these sufferings. When 11 o'clock comes, they cease by themselves, and I fall asleep

at that moment. The following day,

I feel very weak. This happened to me for the first time when I was at the sanatorium. The

doctors couldn't help to get to the bottom of it, and no injection or medicine helped me at all.

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