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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 1540.

January 28, 1938. Today the Lord said to me, my daughter, write down these words,

all those souls who will glorify my mercy and spread its worship, encouraging others to trust in my mercy, will not experience terror at the hour of death.

My mercy will shield them in that final battle.

My daughter, encourage souls to say the chaplet which I have given to you.

It pleases me to grant everything they ask of me by saying the chaplet which I have given to you. It pleases me to grant everything they ask of me

by saying the chaplet. When hardened sinners say it, I will fill their souls with peace,

and the hour of their death will be a happy one. Write this for the benefit of distressed souls.

When a soul sees and realizes the gravity of its sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes,

let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of my mercy as a child into the arms of its beloved mother.

These souls have a right of priority to my compassionate heart.

They have first access to my mercy. Tell them that no soul that has called upon my mercy has been disappointed or brought to shame.

I delight particularly in a soul that has placed its trust in my goodness.

Write that when they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying,

I will stand between my father and the dying person,

not as the just judge, but as the merciful Savior.

At that moment the Lord gave me to know how jealous he is of my heart.

Even among the sisters, you will feel lonely.

Know then that I want you to unite yourself more closely to me.

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