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9 p.m., Saturday
I am observing the Hour of Mary’s Desolation, which I could not observe previously. I see and hear Mary’s tears and moans. I see my Savior motionless and leaden in the unsteady glare of torches.
Jesus says to me, “On another occasion I shall have you know the revenge by the Conquered One on the Woman Conquering him. My Mother’s terrible spiritual anguish. Not now. You are too weak. Cry with Her.”
I wrote this last night in the dark, and it is thus written so horrendously. There was nothing but faint moonlight....
732 This entry is preceded by the episode involving “The Possessed Man,” written on September 29 and found in the cycle on The Third Year of the Public Life.