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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1680.

Low Sunday

Today I again offered myself to the Lord as a Holocaust for sinners.

My Jesus, if the end of my life is already approaching, I beg you, most humbly, accept my death, in union with you as a Holocaust, which I offer you today, while I still have full possession of my faculties and a fully conscious will, and this for a threefold purpose.

Firstly, that the work of your mercy may spread throughout the whole world, and that the feast of the divine mercy may be solemnly promulgated and celebrated.

Secondly, that sinners, especially dying sinners, may have recourse to your mercy and experience the unspeakable effects of this mercy.

Thirdly, that all the work of your mercy may be realized according to your wishes

and for a certain person who is in charge of this work. Except, most merciful Jesus, this my

inadequate sacrifice which I offer to you today before heaven and earth,

may your most sacred heart, so full of mercy, complete what is lacking in my offering,

and offer it to your Father for the conversion of sinners.

I thirst after souls, O Christ. At that moment, the light of God penetrated my being,

and I felt that I was God's exclusive property, and I experienced the greatest spiritual freedom

of which I had had no previous idea, and at that same time I saw the glory of the divine mercy

and an infinite multitude of souls who were praising his goodness. My soul was completely drowned

in God, and I heard the words, You are my beloved daughter. The vivid presence of God continued throughout the whole day.

May 1, 1938. This evening, Jesus said to me, my daughter, do you need anything? I answered, oh my love, when I have you, I have everything.

And the Lord answered, if souls would put themselves completely in my care, I myself would

undertake the task of sanctifying them, and I would lavish even greater graces on them.

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