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 1365.

O eternal love, you who enkindle a new life entry number 1365.

O eternal love, you who enkindle a new life within me, a life of love and of mercy,

support me with your grace so that I may worthily answer your call,

so that what you yourself have intended to accomplish in souls through me might indeed be accomplished. My God, I see the radiance of eternal dawn. My whole soul bounds towards you,

O Lord. Nothing any longer holds me back. Nothing ties me to earth. Help me, O Lord, to bear the rest of my

days with patience. The sacrifice of my love burns incessantly before your majesty, but so

silently that only your divine eyes see it. O God, and no other creature is capable of perceiving it.

O my Lord, although so many things occupy me, although I have this work at heart, although I desire

the triumph of the church and the salvation of souls,

although all the persecutions of your faithful ones affect me, although the fall of each soul

is painful to me, yet above and beyond all this, I still have a profound peace in my soul, which neither triumphs

nor desires nor adversities can disturb me, because for me, you are above all dispensations,

my Lord and my God.

Eighth Day, O my Lord, while calling to mind all your blessings, in the presence of your

most sacred heart, I have felt the need to be particularly grateful for so many graces

and blessings from God.

I want to plunge myself in Thanksgiving

before the majesty of God and to continue in this prayer of Thanksgiving for seven days and seven

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