Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey,

reading the Diary of St. Maria Faustina Cavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 320.

Jesus made known to me how very pleasing to him were prayers of atonement.

He said to me, The prayer of a humble and loving soul disarms the anger of my father

and draws down an ocean of blessings.

After the adoration, halfway to my cell, I was surrounded by a pack of huge black dogs

who were jumping and howling and trying to tear me to pieces. I realized that they were

not dogs, but demons. One of them spoke up

in a rage. Because you have snatched so many souls away from us this night, we will tear you to pieces.

I answered, if that is the will of the most merciful God, tear me to pieces, for I have justly deserved it,

because I am the most miserable of all sinners, and God is ever holy, just and infinitely merciful.

To these words, all the demons answered as one, let us flee, for she is not alone,

the Almighty is with her, and they vanished like

dust, like the noise of the road. While I continued on my way to my cell undisturbed, finishing my

to-dayum, and pondering the infinite and unfathomable mercy of God.

August 12, 1934.

A sudden illness, a mortal suffering.

It was not death, that is to say, a passing over to real life,

but a taste of the suffering of death.

Although it gives us eternal life, death is dreadful.

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