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 1301.

It is extraordinary how Mother Irene has so much light from God concerning this whole matter.

She was the first to allow me to carry out the Lord's wishes,

although it was not until two years after the revelation that she became my superior.

And despite this fact, she was the first to go with me

when the painting of the image was first undertaken.

And now, again, when some things concerning the divine mercy are being published

and small holy cards are being printed,

again it is she who is going with me to take care

of this matter. God has ordained all this in a mysterious way because this was begun in Vilnius,

and now God's will has so directed the circumstances that this matter is being continued in Krakow.

I know how pleasing this superior is to God.

I see how God is directing everything and wants me to be under her protection during these important times.

Thank you, Lord, for such superiors who live in the love and fear of God. That is why I pray

for her most of all, because she has put herself out the most for the sake of this work of divine mercy.

September 29, 1937, Today I have come to understand many of God's mysteries. I have

come to know that Holy Communion remains in me until the next Holy Communion. A vivid and clearly

felt presence of God continues in my soul.

The awareness of this plunges me into deep recollection without the slightest effort on my part.

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