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 Kavalska, from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 400.

On the last day, when everyone had left the church, I went before

the Blessed Sacrament with him, and together we recited the to-daeum. After a moment of silence,

I offered his soul to the sweetest heart of Jesus. How easy it was to pray in that little church.

I remembered all the graces that I had received there, and which I had not understood at the time, and had so often abused. I wondered how I could

have been so blind. And as I was thus regretting my blindness, I suddenly saw the Lord Jesus, radiant with unspeakable

beauty, and he said to me with kindness, my chosen one, I will give you even greater graces,

that you may be the witness of my infinite mercy throughout all eternity.

The days at home passed in much company, as everybody wanted to see me and talk with me.

Often I could count as many as twenty-five people there.

They listened with great interest to my accounts of the lives of the saints.

It seemed to me that our house was truly the house of God, as each evening we talked about nothing but God.

When, tired from these talks and yearning for solitude and silence, I quietly slipped out into the garden in the evening so I could converse with God alone.

Even in this I was unsuccessful. Immediately my brothers and sisters came and

took me into the house, and once again I had to talk with all those eyes fixed on me. But I struck

on one way of getting some respite, I asked my brothers to sing for me, in as much as they had

lovely voices, and besides, one

played the violin and another the mandolin.

And during this time, I was able to devote myself to interior prayer without shunning their

...