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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 550. And always and in everything, their intention should be pure,

for every sort of mixed motive is displeasing to God. They should accuse themselves of all external transgressions

and ask the superior for a penance.

They should do this in a spirit of humility.

They should love one another with a sublime love,

with a pure love, seeing God's likeness in every sister.

Love should be the special characteristic of this little community, so they must not close

up their hearts but embrace the whole world, rendering mercy to every soul through prayer

according to their calling.

If we live in this spirit of mercy, we ourselves will obtain mercy.

How great should each one's love for the church be? As a good child prays for the mother it loves,

so also should every Christian soul pray for the church, its mother. What then should be said of us religious,

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