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 325.

1934

On the day of the assumption of the Mother of God,

I did not assist at Holy Mass.

The woman doctor did not allow me,

but I prayed fervently in my cell. After a short time, I saw the mother of God

unspeakably beautiful. She said to me, my daughter, what I demand from you is prayer, prayer,

and once again, prayer, for the world, and especially for your country for nine days receive holy

communion in atonement and unite yourself closely to the holy sacrifice of the mass during these nine days

you will stand before god as an offering always and and everywhere, at all times and places, day or night,

whenever you wake up, pray in the Spirit. In Spirit, you can always remain in prayer.

Once, Jesus said to me, my gaze from this image is like my gaze from the cross.

Once my confessor, Father Sopocho asked me where the inscription should be placed because

there was not enough space in the picture for everything.

I answered, I will pray and give you an answer next week.

When I left the confessional and was passing before the Blessed Sacrament,

I received an inner understanding about the inscription.

Jesus reminded me of what he had told me the first time,

namely that these three words must be clearly in evidence,

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