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 1415.

I desire, my dearly beloved daughter, that you practice the three virtues that are dearest

to me and most pleasing to God.

The first is humility, humility, and once again humility.

The second virtue, purity. The third virtue, the love of God. As my daughter, you must

especially radiate with these virtues. When the conversation ended, she pressed me to her heart

and disappeared. Then I regained the use of my senses. My heart became so wonderfully attracted to

these virtues. I practiced them faithfully. They are as though engraved in my heart. This has been a

great day for me. During this day I remained as though in unceasing contemplation. The very thought of this

grace drew me into further contemplation, and throughout the whole day I continued in Thanksgiving,

which I never stopped, because each recollection of this grace caused my soul ever anew to lose itself in God.

O my lord, my soul is the most wretched of all, and yet you stoop to it with such kindness.

I see clearly your greatness and my littleness, and therefore I rejoice that you are so powerful

and without limit, and so I rejoice greatly at being so little.

O suffering Christ, I am going out to meet you, as your bride, I must resemble you. Your cloak of igniminy must cover

me too. O Christ, you know how ardently I desire to become like you. Grant that your entire

passion may be my lot. May all your sorrow be poured into my heart. I trust that

you will complete this in me in the way you deem most fitting. Today there was nocturnal

adoration. I could not take part in it because of my poor health. But before I fell asleep, I united myself with the sisters who were at adoration. Between four and five o'clock I was suddenly awakened, and I heard a voice telling me to join those who were adoring at that time. I understood that there was among them a soul who was

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