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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 436.

June 29, 1935. with diary entry number 436.

June 29, 1935.

When I talked to my spiritual director, Father Sopochko, about various things that the Lord was asking of me, I thought he would tell me that I was incapable of accomplishing all those

things and that

the Lord Jesus did not use miserable souls like me for the works he wanted done.

But I heard words to the effect that it was just such souls that God chooses most frequently

to carry out his plans. This priest is surely guided by the Spirit of God.

He has penetrated the secrets of my soul, the deepest secrets which were between me and God,

about which I had not yet spoken to him, because I had not understood them myself, and the Lord had not clearly ordered me to tell him.

The secret is this.

God demands that there be a congregation which will proclaim the mercy of God to the world,

and by its prayers, obtain it for the world.

When the priest asked me, if I had not had any such inspirations, I replied

that I had not had any clear orders, but at that instant a light penetrated my soul,

and I understood that the Lord was speaking through him. In vain had I defended myself by saying that I had not received any clear orders,

for at the end of our conversation I saw the Lord Jesus on the threshold

as he is represented in the image and he said to me,

I desire that there be such a congregation. This lasted only a moment. Yet I did not

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