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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 15.06. O incomprehensible God, my heart dissolves in joy that you have allowed me to

penetrate the mysteries of your mercy. Everything begins with your mercy and ends with your mercy. All grace flows from

mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us. Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God.

Even if a person's sins were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery.

One thing alone is necessary that the sinner sets ajar the door of his heart,

be it ever so little to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest.

But poor is the soul who has shut the door on God's mercy,

even at the last hour. It was just such souls who plunged Jesus into deadly sorrow in the

Garden of Olives. Indeed, it was from his most merciful heart that divine mercy flowed out. January 21st,

1938. Jesus, how truly dreadful it would be to suffer if it were not for you. But it is you, Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who give me strength

and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering,

but you, O Lord, are faithful. It often happens when one is ill, as in the case of Job in the Old Testament,

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