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 No number 555.

The use of the parlor.

None of the sisters will make use of the parlor without special permission of the superior,

and the superior should not permit frequent visits.

Those who have died to the world should not be going back to it, not even through conversations.

But if the superior thinks it right to permit some sister to go to the parlor, let her observe the following directions.

She herself should accompany the sister, and if she cannot do so, she should arrange to be replaced by a sister who will be bound to confidence and must not repeat what she has heard, but who is to inform the superior of everything.

Conversations ought to be short unless there is permission for extra time for the sake of the person who has come for the visit.

However, the curtain is not to be drawn aside except for very special cases, as for example

when the mother or father urgently asks that this be done.

Letters.

Every sister may write sealed letters to the ordinary to whom the house is subject.

For any other letter, permission is required, and the sister shall hand the letter unsealed to the superior.

The superior is to be guided by the spirit of love and prudence and has the right to send or withhold to the

letter in the light of whatever is for the greater glory of God. However, I would like very much

that such communications be as rare as possible. Let us help people by prayer and mortification

and not by correspondence.

Confession. Both the regular and the extraordinary confessors for the community will be appointed by the ordinary, the bishop.

There will be one regular confessor and he will hear the sisters' confessions once a week.

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