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 1327.

First day, Jesus. My daughter, this retreat will be an uninterrupted contemplation.

I will bring you into this retreat as into a spiritual banquet. Close to my merciful heart, you will

meditate upon all the graces your heart has received,

and a deep peace will accompany your soul.

I want the eyes of your soul to be always fixed on my holy will,

since it is in this way that you will please me most.

No sacrifices can be compared to this. Throughout all the exercises you will please me most. No sacrifices can be compared to this.

Throughout all the exercises, you will remain close to my heart.

You shall not undertake any reforms because I will dispose of your whole life as I see fit.

The priest who will preach the retreat will not speak a single word which will trouble

you. My Jesus, I have already made two meditations and I recognize through them that everything

you have said is true. I am experiencing a profound peace and this peace flows from the witness of my conscience.

That is to say that I am always doing your will, O Lord.

In the meditation on the goal of man, I understood that this truth is deeply rooted in my soul,

and that my deeds are therefore the more perfect.

I know why I was created.

All creatures taken together cannot take the place for me of my Creator.

I know that God is my ultimate goal, and so in whatever I undertake, I take God into account.

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