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 1741.

The Infinite Goodness of God in the creation of the angels.

O God, who are happiness in your very self

and have no need of creatures to make you happy,

because of yourself, you are the fullness of love.

Yet, out of your fathomless mercy, you call creatures into being and grant them a share in

your eternal happiness, and in your life, that divine indwelling life which you live, one God

in three persons.

In your unfathomable mercy, you have created angelic spirits and admitted them to your love and to your divine intimacy. You have made them capable of eternal love.

Although you bestowed on them so generously, O Lord, the splendor of love and beauty,

your fullness was not diminished in the least, O God, nor have your love and beauty completed

you because you are everything in yourself. And if you have allowed them to participate in your

happiness and to exist and to love you,

that is only due to the abyss of your mercy.

This is your unfathomable goodness, for which they glorify you without end,

humbling themselves at the feet of your majesty as they chant their eternal hymn, holy, holy, holy.

Be praised, merciful God, one God in the Holy Trinity, unfathomable, infinite, incomprehensible.

Immersing themselves in you, their minds cannot comprehend you, so they repeat without end their eternal holy.

Be glorified, O merciful creator of ours, O Lord, omnipotent, but full of compassion, inconceivable.

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