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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 1763.

Second Meditation My daughter Number 1763.

Second meditation.

My daughter, consider the rule and the vows which you have offered to me.

You know how highly I value them.

All the graces that I have for the souls of religious are connected with the rule and the vows. Application.

Oh, my Jesus, I feel guilty of many imperfections on this score, but by your grace I do not

recall any conscious and voluntary transgression of the rule or the religious vows.

Continue to guard me, O my good Jesus, for of myself I am weak.

Today, my daughter, for your reading, you shall take chapter 19 of St. John's Gospel and read it not only with your lips, but with your heart.

During this reading, my soul was filled with deep repentance. I saw all the ingratitude of creatures toward their Creator and Lord.

I asked God to protect me from spiritual blindness.

Conference on Sacrifice and Prayer

My daughter, I want to instruct you on how you are to rescue souls through sacrifice and prayer.

You will save more souls through prayer and suffering

than will a missionary through his teachings and sermons alone. I want to see you as a sacrifice

of living love, which only then carries weight before me. You must be annihilated, destroyed, living as if you were dead in the most secret depths

of your being.

You must be destroyed in that secret depth where the human eye has never penetrated.

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