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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary entry number 503.

My Jesus, truly beginning with diary entry number 5.03.

My Jesus, truly, I would not know how to live without you.

My spirit is welded to yours.

No one can really understand this.

One must first live in you in order to recognize you in others. Krakow, October 25, 1935, retreat resolutions.

Not to do anything without the permission of my confessor and the consent of my superiors in all things,

but especially regarding these inspirations and demands of the Lord.

All my free time I will spend with the divine guest within my soul.

I will safeguard my interior and exterior silence

so that Jesus can rest in my heart. My sweetest repose will be in serving and obliging the sisters,

in forgetting about myself and thinking of how to please the sisters.

I will not offer explanations on my own behalf or seek to vindicate myself when criticized.

I will let others judge me as they will.

I have only one trusted friend in whom I confide everything and that is Jesus, the Eucharist,

and his representative, my confessor.

In the midst of all sufferings, both physical and spiritual, as well as in darkness and desolation,

I will remain silent like a dove and not complain.

I will empty myself continually at his feet in order to obtain mercy for poor souls.

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