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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 1583.

As I write this, I hear Satan grinding his teeth.

He cannot stand God's mercy and keeps banging things in my cell.

But I feel so much of God's power within me that it does not even bother me that the enemy of our salvation gets angry, and I quietly keep on writing.

O inconceivable goodness of God, which shields us at every step, may your mercy be praised

without cease, that you may become a brother to humans, not to angels,

is a miracle of the unfathomable mystery of your mercy.

All our trust is in you, our first-born brother, Jesus Christ, true God and true man. My heart flutters with joy to see how good God is to us,

wretched and ungrateful people.

And as a proof of His love, he gives us the incomprehensible gift of himself in the person of his son.

Throughout all eternity we shall never exhaust that mystery of love.

O mankind, why do you think so little about God being truly among us? O Lamb of God, I do not know

what to admire in you first, your gentleness, your hidden life, the emptying of yourself

for the sake of man, or the constant miracle of your mercy, which transforms souls, and raises them

up to eternal life. Although you are hidden in this way, your omnipotence is more manifest here than in the creation of man.

Though the omnipotence of your mercy is at work in the justification of the sinner, yet your action is gentle and hidden.

A vision of the Mother of God. In the midst of a great brilliance, I saw the Mother of God.

In the midst of a great brilliance, I saw the Mother of God, clothed in a white gown,

girt about with a golden sincture, and there were tiny stars also of gold over the whole

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