Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marriott 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 367.

On one occasion, Jesus gave me to know that when I pray for intentions which people are wont to entrust to me, he is always ready to grant his graces, but souls do not

always want to accept them.

My prayer overflows with great mercy for souls,

and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of fathers

to them, and that it is for them that the blood and water flowed from my heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy.

For them I dwell in the tabernacle as king of mercy.

I desire to bestow my graces upon souls, but they do not want to accept them.

You, at least, come to me as often as possible, and take these graces they

do not want to accept. In this way, you will console my heart. Oh, how indifferent are souls

to so much goodness, to so many proofs of love. My heart drinks only of the ingratitude and forgetfulness of souls living in the world.

They have time for everything, but they have no time to come to me for graces.

So I turn to you, you, chosen souls.

Will you also fail to understand the love of my heart?

Here, too, my heart finds disappointment. I do not find complete surrender to my love.

So many reservations, so much distrust, so much caution. To comfort you, let me tell you that there are souls living in the world who love me dearly. I dwell in their hearts with delight, but they are few. In convents, too, there are souls that fill my heart with joy.

They bear my features.

Therefore, the Heavenly Father looks upon them with special pleasure.

They will be a marvel to angels and men.

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