Hello, I'm 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 890.

Love is a mystery that transforms everything it touches into things beautiful and pleasing to God.

The love of God makes a soul free. She is like a queen.

She knows no slavish compulsion. She sets about everything with great freedom of soul,

because the love which dwells in her incites her to action. Everything that surrounds her makes her know that only God himself is worthy of her love. A soul in love with God and immersed in him approaches

her duties with the same dispositions as she does Holy Communion and carries out the simplest

tasks with great care under the loving gaze of God. She is not troubled if, after some time, something turns out

to be less successful. She remains calm, because at the time of the action, she had done what was in

her power. When it happens that the living presence of God, which she enjoys most constantly leaves her,

she then tries to continue living in lively faith.

Her soul understands that there are periods of rest and periods of battle.

Through her will, she is always with God.

Her soul, like a knight, is well trained in battle. From afar, it sees where the foe is hiding and is ready for battle.

She knows she is not alone. God is her strength.

January 21st, 1937.

Since early morning today, I have been wondrously united with the Lord.

In the evening, the hospital chaplain visited me.

After we had talked for a while, I felt my spirit beginning to immerse itself in God,

and I began to lose all sense of what was happening around me.

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