Hello, I've 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 387.

A General Principle Beginning with diary entry number 3.87.

A general principle.

It would be a very ugly thing for a religious to seek relief from suffering.

See what grace and reflection made out of the greatest criminal.

He who is dying has much love. Remember me when you are in paradise.

Heartfelt repentance immediately transforms the soul. The spiritual life is to be lived earnestly and sincerely. Love must be reciprocal. If Jesus tasted the fullness of bitterness for me,

then I, his bride, will accept all bitterness as proof of my love for him. He who knows how to

forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross,

so often will I forgive with all my heart. Through Holy baptism we entered into union with other souls.

Death tightens the bonds of love. I ought to always be of help to others.

If I am a good religious, I will be useful, not only to the order, but to the whole country as well.

The Lord God grants his graces in two ways, by inspiration and by enlightenment.

If we ask God for a grace, he will give it to us,

but let us be willing to accept it, and in order to accept it, self-denial is needed.

Love does not consist in words or feelings, but in deeds. It is an act of the will. It is a gift, that is to say, a giving.

The reason, the will, the heart,

these three faculties must be exercised during prayer.

I will rise from the dead in Jesus, but first I must live in him. If I do not separate

myself from the cross, then the gospel will be revealed in me. Jesus in me makes up for all my

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