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 1589. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the soul's expectation of the coming of the Lord.

I do not know, O Lord, at what hour you will come, and so I keep constant watch and listen

as your chosen bride, knowing that you like to come unexpected. Yet a pure heart will sense you

from afar, O Lord. I wait for you, Lord, in calm and silence, with great longing in my heart,

with invincible desire. I feel that my love for you is changing into fire, and that it will rise up to

heaven like a flame at life's end, and then all my wishes will be fulfilled.

Come then, at last, my most sweet Lord, and take my thirsting heart there to your home in the lofty regions of heaven, where your eternal life perdures.

Life on this earth is but an agony, as my heart feels it is created for the heights, for it the lowlands of this life hold no interest, for my homeland is in heaven.

This I firmly believe.

End of Notebook 5.

St. Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament of the congregation of the sisters of our Lady of Mercy,

The mercy of God I will praise forever.

Notebook 6.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, praise, O my soul, the incomprehensible mercy of God, may all be for his glory.

Krakow, February 10, 1938, Sixth Notebook, Sister Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament

of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. My heart is drawn there where my God is hidden,

where he dwells with us day and night,

clothed in the white host.

He governs the whole world.

He communes with souls.

My heart is drawn there where my God is hiding, where his love is immolated,

where my heart senses that the living water is here, but my heart senses that the living water is here.

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