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 Cavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1394.

26th of November, 1937 entry number 1394

26th of November 1937

Monthly One Day Retreat

In the course of this retreat, the Lord has given me the light to know his will more profoundly

and to abandon myself completely to the holy will of God.

This light has confirmed me in profound peace,

making me understand that I should fear nothing except sin.

Whatever God sends me, I accept with complete submission to his holy will. Wherever He puts me, I will try faithfully to do His Holy Will, as well as His wishes, to the extent of my power to do so,

even if the will of God were to be as hard and difficult for me as was the will of the Heavenly Father for his son, as he prayed in

the Garden of Olives. I have come to see that if the will of the Heavenly Father was fulfilled

in this way in his well-beloved son, it will be fulfilled in us in exactly the same way,

by suffering, persecution, abuse, disgrace.

It is through all this that my soul becomes like unto Jesus, and the greater the sufferings,

the more I see that I am becoming like Jesus. This is the surest way. If some other way were better,

Jesus would have shown it to me. Sufferings in no way take away my peace. On the other hand,

although I enjoy profound peace, that peace does not lessen my experience of suffering although my face is

often bowed to the ground and my tears flow profusely at the same time my soul is

filled with profound peace and happiness I want to hide myself in your most merciful heart as a dewdrop does in a flower blossom,

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