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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 1658.

I received Holy Communion upstairs, for there was no question of my going down to the chapel since I was exhausted because of intense sweating,

and when that passed, I had a fever and chills. I felt completely worn out. Today, one of the Jesuit priests, Father Zukovic, brought us Holy Communion. He gave the

Lord to three other sisters, and then to me, and thinking I was the last, he gave me two hosts. But one of the novices

was lying in bed in the next cell, and there was no host left for her. The priest went back

again and brought her the Lord. But Jesus told me, I enter that heart unwillingly. You received

those two hosts because I delayed my coming into this soul who resists my

grace. My visit to such a soul is not pleasant for me. At that point my soul was drawn close to him,

and I received a deep inner light which gave me to understand, in spirit, all the

workings of mercy. It was like a flash of lightning, but more distinct than if I had watched

it for hours with the eyes of my body. Still, in order to write anything at all, I must make use of words, though they cannot

render all of what my soul enjoyed on seeing the glory of God's mercy. The glory of the divine

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