Hello, I've 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 Number 424.

A Certain Moment, May 12, 1935. In the evening, I just about got

into bed and I fell asleep immediately. Though I fell asleep quickly, I was awakened even more quickly.

A little child came and woke me up.

The child seemed about a year old, and I was surprised it could speak so well as children of that age either do not speak or speak very indistinctly. The child was beautiful beyond words

and resembled the child Jesus.

And he said to me, look at the sky.

And when I looked at the sky, I saw the stars and the moon shining.

Then the child asked me, do you see this moon and these stars?

When I said yes, he spoke these words to me. These stars are the souls

of faithful Christians, and the moon is the soul of religious. Do you see how great the difference

is between the light of the moon and the light of the stars. Such is the difference

in heaven between the soul of a religious and the soul of a faithful Christian.

And he went on to say that true greatness is in loving God and in humility.

Then I saw a soul which was being separated from its body amid great torment.

O Jesus, as I am about to write this, I tremble at the sight of the horrible things that bear witness against him.

I saw the souls of little children and those of older ones, about nine years of age,

emerging from some kind of a muddy abyss.

The souls were foul and disgusting, resembling the most terrible monsters and decaying corpses,

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