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 1782.

When I went out to the garden today, the Lord said to me,

Return to your room, for I will be waiting for you there. As soon as I returned, I saw the Lord

Jesus sitting at the table and waiting for me. He looked at me kindly and said, My daughter, I want you to write now,

because that walk would not have been in conformity with my will. I remained alone and immediately

got down to writing. When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time,

I implored God for the sake of all these holy masses to have mercy on the world,

and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment.

At the same instant I received an interior answer from God

that a thousand souls had received grace

through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God.

We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save

through our prayers and sacrifices. Therefore, let us always pray for sinners.

Today, in the course of a long conversation, the Lord said to me,

how very much I desire the salvation of souls. My dearest secretary, write what I want to pour out my divine life into

human souls and sanctify them if only they were willing to accept my grace. The greatest sinners

would achieve great sanctity if only they would trust in my mercy. The very inner depths

of my being are filled to overflowing with mercy, and it is being poured out upon all I have created.

My delight is to act in a human soul and to fill it with my mercy and to justify it.

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