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 1506.

O incomprehensible God, my heart dissolves in joy that you have allowed me to

penetrate the mysteries of your mercy. Everything begins with your mercy and ends with your mercy.

All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us.

Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God.

Even if a person's sins were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery.

One thing alone is necessary that the sinner sets ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so

little, to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest. But poor is the

soul who has shut the door on God's mercy, even at the last hour. It was just such souls who plunged Jesus

into deadly sorrow in the Garden of Olives. Indeed, it was from his most merciful heart that

divine mercy flowed out. January 21st, 1938. Jesus, how truly dreadful it would be to suffer if it were

not for you. But it is you, Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who give me strength and are always

close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in

his suffering, but you, O Lord, are faithful. It often happens when one is ill, as in the case of Job

in the Old Testament, that as long as one can move about and work, everything is fine and dandy.

But when God sends illness, somehow or other there are fewer friends about. But yet there are some.

They still take interest in our suffering and all that. But if God sends a longer illness, even those faithful

friends slowly begin to desert us. They visit us less frequently, and often their visits cause

suffering. Instead of comforting us, they reproach us about certain things, which is an occasion of a good deal of suffering.

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