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 1746.

Be adored, O God of mercy, because you have deigned to descend from heaven to earth,

most humbly we adore you, for you have vouchsafed to exalt all mankind, unfathomable

and incomprehensible in your mercy, for love of us,

you take on flesh, from the Immaculate Virgin ever untouched by sin, because you have willed it

so from all ages. The Blessed Virgin, that snow-white lily, is first to praise the omnipotence

of your mercy. Her pure heart opens with love for the coming of the word. She believes the

words of God's messenger and is confirmed in trust. Heaven is astounded that God has become man,

that there is on earth a heart worthy of God himself. Why is it that you do not unite yourself

with a seraph but with a sinner, O Lord? Oh, because despite the purity of the virginal womb, this is a mystery of your mercy.

O mystery of God's mercy, O God of compassion, that you have deigned to leave the heavenly throne

and to stoop down to our misery, to human weakness, for it is not the angels,

but man who needs mercy. To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with

your immaculate mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to you, because she is chosen from among men and

angels. Through her, as through a pure crystal, your mercy has passed on to us. Through her, man became

pleasing to God. Through her, streams of grace flowed down upon us.

God's infinite goodness in redeeming man. God, you could have saved thousands of worlds with one word.

A single sigh from Jesus would have satisfied your justice.

But you yourself, Jesus, purely out of love for us, underwent such a terrible passion.

...