Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 Kovalska, from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry No. 4.15.

Saturday. During Vespers. beginning with Diary Entry Number 415.

Saturday, during Vespers I saw the Lord Jesus radiant as the sun in a bright garment,

and he said to me, may your heart be joyful, and great joy flooded me, and I was penetrated with God's presence, which for the soul is a treasure

beyond words. When the image was displayed, I saw a sudden movement of the hand of Jesus as he made a large

sign of the cross. In the evening of the same day, when I had gone to bed, I saw the

image going over the town, and the town was covered with what appeared to be a mesh and nets.

As Jesus passed, he cut through all the nets, and finally made a large sign of the cross and disappeared.

I saw myself surrounded by a multitude of malicious figures,

burning with hatred for me.

Various threats came from their lips, but none of them touched me.

After a moment this apparition vanished, but for a long time I could

not get to sleep. April 26th. On Friday, when I was at Ostra Brahma, to attend the ceremony

during which the image was displayed, I heard a sermon given by my confessor,

Father Sopochko.

This sermon about the divine mercy was the first of the things that Jesus had asked for so

very long ago.

When he began to speak about the great mercy of the Lord, the image came alive, and the rays pierced the hearts of the

people gathered there, but not all to the same degree. Some received more, some less. Great joy

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