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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning

with Diary Entry Number 1343. Third Day. In the meditation on death, I prepared myself as if for

real death. I examined my conscience and searched all my affairs at the approach of death,

and thanks be to God, my affairs were directed toward that ultimate goal. This filled my heart

with great gratitude to God, and I resolved to serve my God even more faithfully in the future.

One thing alone is necessary to put my old self to death and to begin a new life.

In the morning, I prepared to receive Holy Communion as if it were to be the last in my life,

and after Holy Communion I brought before my imagination my actual death,

and I said the prayers for the dying, and then the day profundis, for my own soul.

My body was lowered into the grave, and I said to my soul, see what has become of your body,

a heap of dirt teeming with vermin,

that is your inheritance.

O merciful God, who still allow me to live, give me strength that I may live a new life,

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