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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 1741. The infinite goodness of God in the creation of the angels. O God, who are happiness

in your very self and have no need of creatures to make you happy,

because of yourself, you are the fullness of love.

Yet, out of your fathomless mercy, you call creatures into being

and grant them a share in your eternal happiness, and in your life,

that divine indwelling life which you live, one God

in three persons. In your unfathomable mercy, you have created angelic spirits and admitted them

to your love and to your divine intimacy. You have made them capable of eternal love.

Although you bestowed on them so generously, O Lord, the splendor of love and beauty, your fullness

was not diminished in the least, O God, nor have your love and beauty completed you, because

you are everything in yourself.

And if you have allowed them to participate in your happiness and to exist and to love you,

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