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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 188. During the last days of the carnival, when I was making a

holy hour, I saw how the Lord Jesus suffered as he was being scourged.

Oh, such an inconceivable agony!

How terribly Jesus suffered during the scourging!

O poor sinners, on the day of judgment,

how will you face the Jesus whom you are now torturing so cruelly?

His blood flowed to the ground, and in some places his flesh started to fall off. I saw a few bare bones on his back. The meek Jesus moaned softly

and sighed. On one occasion Jesus gave me to know how pleasing to him is the soul that faithfully keeps the rule.

A soul will receive a greater reward for observing the rule than for penances and great mortifications.

The latter will be rewarded also if they are undertaken over and above the rule, but they will not

surpass the rule.

Once during an adoration, the Lord demanded that I give myself up to him as an offering by

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