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 1334.

In the meditation on sin, the Lord gave me to know all the malice of sin

and the ingratitude that is contained in it. I feel within my soul a great aversion for even

the smallest sin. However, the eternal truths I have been meditating on

do not bring me even a shadow of disturbance or unrest in my soul. And although I take them very

much to heart, my contemplation is not thereby interrupted. In this contemplation, it is not transports of the heart that I experience, but a depth of peace and a wonderful silence.

Although my love is great, I experience an extraordinary equilibrium. Even receiving the Eucharist causes no feelings, but brings

me to a depth of union where my love and God's love are fused together as one. Jesus has made

known to me that I should pray for the sisters who are making the retreat.

During prayer, I learned of the struggle that some are undergoing, and I redoubled my prayers.

In this profound silence, I am better able to judge the condition of my soul. My soul is like clear water in which I can see

everything, both my misery and the vastness of God's graces, and owing to this true knowledge of itself,

my spirit is strengthened in deep humility. I expose my heart to the action of your grace,

like a crystal exposed to the rays of the sun.

May your image be reflected in it,

O my God, to the extent that it is possible to be reflected in the heart of a creature.

Let your divinity radiate through me,

O you who dwell in my soul. As I was praying before the blessed sacrament and greeting the five

wounds of Jesus, at each salutation I felt a torrent of graces gushing into my soul, giving me a foretaste of heaven and absolute confidence in God's mercy.

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