Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianth 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 357.

Most Holy Trinity, beginning with Diary Entry Number 357.

Most Holy Trinity, I trust in your infinite mercy.

God is mercy, and so I, his child, have every claim to his divine heart,

and the greater the darkness, the more complete our trust should be. I do not understand how it is possible not to trust in him who can do all things.

With him, everything, without him, nothing. He is Lord. He will not allow those who have placed all their trust in him

to be put to shame. January 10, 1935. Thursday. In the evening, during benediction, such thoughts as

these began to distress me.

Is not perhaps all this that I am saying about God's great mercy just a lie or an illusion?

And I wanted to think about this for a while when I heard a strong and clear inner voice saying,

everything that you say about my goodness is true.

Language has no adequate expression to extol my goodness.

These words were so filled with power and so clear that I would give my life in declaring that they came from God.

I can tell this by the profound peace that accompanied them at that time, and that still remains with me.

This peace gives me such great strength and power that all difficulties, adversities, sufferings, and death itself are as nothing.

This light gave me a glimpse of the truth that all my efforts to bring souls to know the

mercy of the Lord are very pleasing to God. And from this springs such great joy in my soul that I do not know whether

it could be any greater in heaven. Oh, if souls would only be willing to listen, at least a little,

to the voice of conscience and the voice, that is, the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. I say at least a little, because once we

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