Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off,

Diary Entry Number 1489, Part 1.

Conversation of the Merciful God with a perfect soul.

Soul. My Lord and Master, I desire to converse with you. Jesus. Speak, my beloved child,

for I am always listening.

I wait for you. What do you desire to say?

Soul, Lord, first, let me pour out my heart at your feet in a fragrant anointing of gratitude

for the many blessings which you lavish upon me.

Even if I wanted to, I could not count them.

I only recall that there has never been a moment in my life

in which I have not experienced your protection and goodness.

Jesus.

Your words please me, and your thanks Thanksgiving opens new treasures of graces. But my child,

we should talk in more detail about the things that lie in your heart. Let us talk confidentially

and frankly as two hearts that love one another do.

Soul.

O my merciful Lord, there are secrets in my heart which no one knows or will ever know except you,

because even if I wanted to reveal them, no one would understand me.

Your minister knows some because I confess to him, but he knows only the bit of these mysteries that I am capable of revealing. The rest remains between us for eternity, O my Lord. You have covered me with the cloak of your mercy, pardoning my sins.

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