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 307

1934

Once during Lent I saw a great light

and a great darkness over house and chapel

I saw the struggle of these two powers. 1934 Holy Thursday

Jesus said to me,

I desire that you make an offering of yourself for sinners

and especially for those souls who have lost hope in God's mercy. God and souls, an act of oblation.

Before heaven and earth, before all the choirs of angels, before the most holy Virgin Mary,

before all the powers of heaven, I declare to the one true God that today, in union with Jesus Christ,

Redeemer of souls, I make a voluntary offering of myself for the conversion of sinners,

especially for those souls who have lost hope in God's mercy.

This offering consists in my accepting with total subjection to God's will,

all the sufferings, fears, and terrors with which sinners are filled.

In return, I give them all the consolations which my soul receives for my communion with God. In a word, I offer everything for them,

holy masses, holy communions, penances, mortifications, prayers. I do not fear the blows, blows of divine

justice because I am united with Jesus.

Oh my God, in this way I want to make amends to you for the souls that do not trust in your goodness.

I hope against all hope in the ocean of your mercy.

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