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 1665.

During Holy Hour in the evening, I heard the words,

You see my mercy for sinners, which at this moment is revealing itself in all its power.

See how little you have written about it. It is only a single drop. Do what is in your power so that sinners may come to know my goodness.

Good Friday, April 15, 1938. I saw the Lord Jesus tortured, but not nailed to the cross.

It was still before the crucifixion, and he said to me,

You are my heart. Speak to sinners about my mercy.

And the Lord gave me interior knowledge of the whole abyss of his mercy for souls,

and I learned that that which I had written is truly a drop.

Holy Saturday, April 16, 1938, during adoration, the Lord said to me, Be at peace, my daughter. This work of mercy is mine. There is nothing of you in it. It pleases me that you are carrying out faithfully what I have commanded you to do, not adding or taking away a single word.

And he gave me an interior light by which I learned that not a single word was mine.

Despite difficulties and adversities, I have always, always fulfilled his will,

as he has made it known to me.

The resurrection.

Before the Mass of the Resurrection, I felt so weak that I lost all hope of participating in the procession

which takes place in the church.

And I said to the Lord, Jesus, if my prayers are pleasing to you, give me the strength

for this moment that I may take part in the procession. At that same instant, I felt strong and certain

that I could go along with the sisters in the procession. When the procession began, I saw Jesus in a brightness greater than the light of the sun.

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