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 No. 302.

O eternal love, I want all the souls you have created beginning with diary entry number 302.

O eternal love, I want all the souls you have created to come to know you.

I would like to be a priest, for then I would speak without cease about your mercy to sinful souls drowned in despair.

I would like to be a missionary and carry out the light of faith to savage nations in order to make you known to souls and to be completely consumed for them and to die a martyr's

death, just as you died for them and for me. O Jesus, I know only too well that I can be a priest, a missionary, a preacher, and that I can die a martyr's death by completely emptying myself and denying myself for love of you, O Jesus, and of immortal souls.

Great love can change small things into great ones,

and it is only love which lends value to our actions.

And the purer our love becomes, the less there will be within us

for the flames of suffering to feed upon.

And the suffering will cease to be a suffering for us.

It will become a delight. By the grace of God, I have received such a disposition of heart

that I am never so happy as when I suffer for Jesus, whom I love with every beat of my heart.

Once, when I was suffering greatly, I left my work and escaped to Jesus and asked him to give me his strength. After a very short prayer, I returned to my work filled with enthusiasm and joy.

Then one of the sisters, probably Sister Justine, said to me, you must have many consolations

today, sister. You look so radiant. Surely God is giving you no suffering, but only consolations.

You are greatly mistaken, sister, I answered, for it is precisely when I suffer much that my joy is greater, and when

I suffer less, my joy also is less. However, that soul was letting me recognize that she

does not understand what I was saying. I tried to explain to her that when we suffer much,

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