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 1523.

Everlasting Love Pure Flame

Burn in my heart ceaselessly and deify my whole being

According to your infinite pleasure by which you summoned me into existence

and called me to take part in your everlasting happiness.

O merciful, Lord, it is only out of mercy that you have lavished these gifts upon me.

Seeing all these free gifts within me, with deep humility, I worship your incomprehensible goodness.

Lord, my heart is filled with amazement that you, absolute Lord, in need of no one,

would nevertheless stoop so low out of pure love for us.

I can never help being amazed that the Lord would have such an intimate relationship with his creatures.

That again is his unfathomable goodness. Every time I begin this meditation, I never finish it,

because my spirit becomes entirely drowned in him. What a delight it is to love with all the force of one's soul

and to be loved even more in return,

to feel and experience this with the full consciousness of one's being.

There are no words to express this. January 25th, 1938,

My Jesus, how good and patient you are. You often look upon us as little children. We often

beg you, but we don't know what for, because towards the end of

the prayer, when you give us what we have asked for, we do not want to accept it.

One day a certain sister came to me and asked me for prayers, telling me that she could no

longer stand things as they were. And so, please

...