Hello, I, 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 1748.

Be adored, O God, in the work of your mercy, be blessed by all faithful hearts, on whom your gaze rests, in whom dwells your immortal life. Oh, my Jesus,

have mercy. Sorrowful was your life on this earth.

And in terrible torment your work came to an end,

hanging stretched out on the wood of the cross,

and all this for the love of our souls.

In your inconceivable love,

you allowed your most holy side to be opened, and streams of blood and water gushed forth from your heart. Here is the living fountain of your mercy.

Here souls receive consolation and refreshment. In the Blessed Sacrament, you left us your mercy. Your love

deigned to arrange it so, that, going through life, suffering and toil, I might never doubt

of your goodness and mercy. For even if the whole world's miseries weighed on my soul, we must not doubt for

even a moment, but have trust in the power of God's mercy, because with graciousness God receives

a contrite soul. O unspeakable mercy of our Lord,

source of compassion and of all sweetness,

trust, trust, O soul,

though you are stained by sin.

For when you approach God, you will not taste bitterness.

Because he is a living fire of great love. When we

approach him with sincerity, our miseries, sins and evil deeds vanish. He will settle our debts

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