Hello, I, 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 1322.

St. Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament of the Congregation of the Sisters of

Our Lady of Mercy, Notebook 5, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The bark of my life sails along amid darkness and

shadows of night, and I see no shore. I am sailing the

high seas. The slightest storm would drown me, engulfing my boat in the swirling depths.

If you yourself did not watch over me, O God, at each instant and moment of my life,

amid the roaring waves I sail peacefully, trustingly, and gaze like a child into the distance without fear,

because you, O Jesus, are my light.

Dread and terror is all about me, but within my soul is peace more profound than the depths

of the sea.

For he who is with you, O Lord, will not perish.

Of this your love assures me, O God. Though a host of dangers surround me, none of them do I fear,

for I fix my gaze on the starry sky, and I sail along bravely and merrily, as becomes a pure heart.

And if the ship of my life sails so peacefully, this is due to but one thing above all.

You are my helmsman, O God. This I confess with utmost humility.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, O my God, I love you.

Sister Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament,

Krakow, October 20, 1937

I bow down before you, O bread of angels, with deep faith, hope and love.

And from the depths of my soul I worship you, though I am but nothingness.

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