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 239.

Prayer during the Mass on the with Diary Entry Number 2.39.

Prayer during the Mass on the Day of the Perpetual Vows.

Today I placed my heart on the pattern where your heart has been placed, O Jesus. And today I offer myself together with you, to God, your Father and mine, as a sacrifice of love and praise.

Father of mercy, look upon the sacrifice of my heart, but through the wound in the heart of Jesus.

May 1, 1933, First Day.

Union with Jesus on the day of perpetual vows.

Jesus, from now on, your heart is mine and mine is yours alone.

The very thought of your name, Jesus, is the delight of my heart.

I truly would not be able to live without you, even for a moment,

Jesus. Today my soul has lost itself in you, my only treasure. My love knows no obstacles in giving

proof of itself to its beloved. The words of Jesus during my perpetual vows, my spouse, our hearts are joined

forever, remember to whom you have vowed. Everything cannot be put into words. My petition,

while we were lying prostrate under the Paul, I begged the Lord to grant me the grace of never consciously and deliberately offending him by even the smallest sin or imperfection.

Jesus, I trust in you.

Jesus, I love you with all my heart.

When times are most difficult, you are my mother.

For love of you, O Jesus, I die completely to myself today and begin to live for the greater glory of your holy name.

Love, it is for love of you, O Most Holy Trinity, that I offer myself to you as an oblation of praise, as a holocaust of total self-immolation. And through this self-immolation, I desire the

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