Hello, I 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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 371.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Vilnius February 4th 1935

8-day retreat

Jesus, King of Mercy

again the time has come when I am alone with you

therefore I beg you by all the love with

which your heart burns, to destroy completely within me, my self-love, and on the other hand,

to enkindle in my heart the fire of your purest love. In the evening, after the conference,

I heard these words.

I am with you. During this retreat, I will strengthen you in peace and in courage,

so that your strength will not fail in carrying out my designs. Therefore, you will cancel out

your will absolutely in this retreat, and instead, my complete

will shall be accomplished in you.

Know that it will cost you much, so write these words on a clean sheet of paper.

From today on, my own will does not exist exist and then cross out the page and on the other side write these words

from today on i do the will of god everywhere always and in everything be afraid of nothing

love will give you strength and make the realization of this easy.

In the fundamental meditation about the goal, that is, of choosing love, the soul must love.

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