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 1658.

I received Holy Communion upstairs, for there was no question of my going down to the chapel since I was exhausted because of intense sweating, and when that passed, I had a fever and chills.

I felt completely worn out.

Today, one of the Jesuit priests, Father Zukovic, brought us Holy Communion.

He gave the Lord to three other sisters and then to me, and thinking I was the last, he gave me two hosts.

But one of the novices was lying in bed in the next cell, and there was no host left for her.

The priest went back again and brought her the Lord.

But Jesus told me, I enter that heart unwillingly.

You received those two hosts because I delayed my coming into this soul who resists my grace. My visit to such a soul is not pleasant for me.

At that point my soul was drawn close to him and I received a deep inner light which gave

me to understand in spirit all the workings of mercy. It was like a flash of lightning, but more distinct than if I had watched it for hours with the eyes of my body.

Still, in order to write anything at all, I must make use of words, though they cannot render all of what my soul enjoyed on seeing the glory of God's mercy.

The glory of the divine mercy is resounding. Even now, in spite of the efforts of its enemies

and of Satan himself, who has a great hatred for God's mercy, this work will snatch a great number of souls from him,

and that is why the spirit of darkness sometimes tempts good people violently, so that they may hinder the work.

But I have clearly seen that the will of God is already being carried out,

and that it will be accomplished to the very

last detail. The enemy's greatest efforts will not thwart the smallest detail of what the Lord

has decreed. No matter if there are times when the work seems to be completely destroyed,

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