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 1512.

Today, during Mass, I saw the Lord Jesus in the midst of his sufferings

as though dying on the cross. He said to me, My daughter, meditate frequently on the sufferings

which I have undergone for your sake, and then nothing of what you suffer for me will seem great to you.

You please me most when you meditate on my sorrowful passion.

Join your little sufferings to my sorrowful passion so that they may have infinite value before my majesty.

Jesus said to me today,

you often call me your master.

This is pleasing to my heart, but do not forget, my disciple,

that you are a disciple of a crucified master.

Let that one word be enough for you. You know what is contained

in the cross. I have learned that the greatest power is hidden in patience. I see that

patience always leads to victory, although not immediately, but that victory will become manifest

after many years. Patience is linked to meekness. I spent this whole night with Jesus in the

dark dungeon. This was a night of adoration. The sisters were praying in the chapel,

and I was uniting myself with them in spirit because poor health prevents me from going to the chapel.

But all night long I could not fall asleep, so I spent the night in the dark prison with Jesus. Jesus gave me to know of the

sufferings he experienced there. The world will learn about them on the day of judgment.

My daughter tell souls that I am giving them my mercy as a defense. I myself am fighting for them and am bearing the just anger of my father.

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