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 240, just after the third request.

Jesus, I commend to you these particular persons, my confessors,

persons recommended to my prayers, a certain person,

Father Andrush, Father Chaputa, and the priest I met in Vilnius,

Father Sopochko, who is to be my confessor, a certain soul, a certain priest, a certain religious,

to whom you know how much I owe. Jesus and all the people who have been recommended to my prayer,

Jesus, on this day, you can do everything for those for whom I am pleading. For myself, I ask,

Lord, transform me completely into yourself. Maintain in me a holy zeal for your glory.

Give me the grace and spiritual strength to do your holy will in all things. Thank you, O my dearest bridegroom, for the dignity you have

conferred on me, and in particular for the royal court of arms, which will adorn me from this day on,

and which even the angels do not possess, namely the cross, the sword, and the crown of thorns.

But above all, O my Jesus, I thank you for your heart.

It is all I need.

Mother of God, Most Holy Mary, my mother, you are my mother in a special way now because

your beloved son is my bridegroom, and thus we are both your children.

For your son's sake, you have to love me.

O Mary, my dearest mother, guide my spiritual life in such a way that it will please your son.

Holy and omnipotent God, at this moment of immense grace by which you are uniting me with yourself forever,

I, mere nothingness, with the utmost gratitude, cast myself at your feet like a tiny,

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