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 1735.

O virgin, lovely flower, you will not remain much longer in this world

oh how beautiful your loveliness my pure bride no numbers can count you how dear is your

virginal flower your brightness is in no way dimmed. It is brave, strong,

invincible. The very blaze of the noonday sun dims and darkens in the presence of a virgin heart.

I see nothing greater than virginity. It is a flower taken from the divine heart.

O gentle virgin, fragrant rose,

although there are many crosses on earth,

no eye has seen, nor has it entered into the mind of man

what awaits a virgin in heaven.

O virgin, snow-white White Lily, you live holy for Jesus alone,

and in the pure chalice of your heart is a pleasing dwelling place for God himself. O Virgin,

no one will sing your hymn. In your song lies hidden the love of God.

Even the angels do not comprehend what the virgins sing to God.

O Virgin, your flower of paradise eclipses all the splendors of this world.

And although the world cannot comprehend you, it bows

humbly before you. Although the Virgin's path is strewn with thorns, and her life bristles with many across,

who is as brave as she? Nothing will break her.

She is invincible.

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