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 1577.

Tell souls not to place within their own hearts

Obstacles to My Mercy, which so greatly wants to act within them.

My mercy works in all those hearts which open their doors to it.

Both the sinner and the righteous person have need of my mercy. Conversion as well as perseverance is a grace of my mercy.

Let souls who are striving for perfection particularly adore my mercy,

because the abundance of graces which I grant them flows from my mercy.

I desire that these souls distinguish themselves by boundless trust in my mercy.

I myself will attend to the sanctification of such souls.

I will provide them with everything that they will need to attain sanctity.

The graces of my mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is trust.

The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive. Souls that trust boundlessly are a great

comfort to me, because I pour out all the treasures of my graces into them. I rejoice that they ask for

much, because it is my desire to give much, very much. On the other hand, I am sad when

souls ask for little, when they narrow their hearts. It is when I meet with hypocrisy that I suffer

most. Now I understand you, my Savior, for rebuking the Pharisees so severely

for their hypocrisy. You associated more graciously with hardened sinners when they approached you

contritely. My Jesus, I now see that I have gone through all of the stages of my life following you,

childhood, youth, vocation, apostolic work, Tabor, Gethsemini, and now I am already with you on Calvary.

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