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 1702.

Towards the end of the way of the cross which I was making,

the Lord Jesus began to complain about the souls of religious and priests,

about the lack of love in chosen souls.

I will allow convents and churches to be destroyed.

I answered Jesus, but there are so many souls praising you in Convents.

The Lord answered, That praise wounds my heart because love has been banished from convents.

Souls without love and without devotion.

Souls full of egoism and self-love, souls full of pride and arrogance,

souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have just enough warmth to keep them alive.

My heart cannot bear this. All the graces that I pour out upon them flow off them as off the face of a rock.

I cannot stand them because they are neither good or bad. I call convents into being to sanctify

the world through them. It is from them that a powerful flame of love and sacrifice should

burst forth. And if they do not repent and become enkindled by their first love, I will

deliver them over to the fate of this world. How can they sit on the promised throne of judgment to judge the world

when their guilt is greater than the guilt of the world? There is neither penance nor atonement.

O heart, which received me in the morning and at noon are all ablaze with hatred against me, hatred of all sorts.

O heart specially chosen by me, were you chosen for this, to give me more pain?

The great sins of the world are superficial wounds on my heart,

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