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 Cavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1596.

I saw Father A. Andrash's surprise at my actions, but all that is for the glory of God. Oh, how great is your grace, O Lord, grace which lifts the soul up to greater heights.

I am very grateful to the Lord for having given me an enlightened priest. You could have continued to leave me in uncertainties and hesitations,

but your goodness remedied that. Oh my Jesus, it is impossible for me to count your favors. My daughter, your struggle

will last until death. Your last breath will mark its end. You shall conquer by meekness.

February 13, 19 1938, I saw how unwillingly the Lord Jesus came to certain souls

in Holy Communion, and he spoke these words to me. I enter into certain hearts as into a second passion.

As I was trying to make my holy hour, I saw the suffering, Jesus, who spoke these words

to me.

My daughter, do not pay so much attention to the vessel of grace as to the grace itself,

which I give you, because you are not always pleased with the vessel,

and then the graces too become deficient. I want to guard you from that, and I want you

never to pay attention to the vessel in which I send you my grace. Let all the attention

of your soul be concentrated on responding to my grace

as faithfully as possible. Oh my Jesus, if you yourself do not soothe the longing of my soul,

then no one can either comfort or soothe it. Your very every approach arouses new raptures

of love in my soul, but also a new agony, because despite all your approaches to my soul,

even the most exceptional, I am still loving you from a distance, and my heart dies in an ecstasy

of love, because this is still not the complete and eternal union. Although you commune with me so

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