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 1318.

October 10, 1937 oh my Jesus in thanksgiving for your many

graces I offer you my body and soul intellect and will and all the sentiments of my heart

through the vows I have given myself entirely to you. I have then

nothing more that I can offer you. Jesus said to me, my daughter, you have not offered me that

which is really yours. I probed deeply into myself and found that I love God with all the faculties of my soul

and unable to see what it was that I had not given to the Lord.

I asked Jesus, tell me what it is, and I will give it to you at once with a generous heart.

Jesus said to me with kindness, daughter, give me your misery because it is your

exclusive property. At that moment, a ray of light illumined my soul, and I saw the whole abyss of my misery.

In that same moment, I nestled close to the most sacred heart of Jesus with so much

trust that even if I had the sins of all the damned weighing on my conscience, I would not have

doubted God's mercy. But with a heart crushed to dust, I would have thrown myself into the abyss of your mercy.

I believe, O Jesus, that you would not reject me, but would absolve me through the hand

of your representative.

You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the

whole world. O fount of life, unfathomable divine mercy, envelop the whole world, and empty

yourself out upon us.

At three o'clock, implore my mercy, especially for sinners, and, if only for a brief

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