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 No. 566.

One day, after Holy Communion, I say, with diary entry number 566.

One day, after Holy Communion, I suddenly saw the infant Jesus standing by my kneeler and holding on to it with his two little hands.

Although he was a little child, my soul was filled with awe and fear, for I see in him my judge, my Lord, and my

creator, before whose holiness the angels tremble. At the same time, my soul was flooded with such

unspeakable love that I thought I would die under its influence.

I now see that Jesus first strengthens my soul and makes it capable of abiding with him,

for otherwise I would not be able to bear what I experience at such a moment.

Relationship of Sisters with the Superior.

All the sisters should respect the Superior as the Lord Jesus himself, as I mentioned when

speaking about the vow of obedience, they should behave toward her with childlike trust and should never murmur or find

fault with her commands, as this is very displeasing to God. Let each be guided by a spirit of faith

in her relationship to the superiors. Let her ask with simplicity for all that she needs. God forbid that it ever

happened or be repeated that any of the sisters would be a cause of sorrow or tears to the superior.

Let each one know that as the Fourth Commandment obliges a child to honor its parents, in like manner, is the religious bound to respect her superior.

Only a bad religious would take the liberty of judging her superior.

Let the sisters be sincere with the superior, telling her about everything and about their needs with childlike

simplicity. The sisters will address the superior thus, with your leave, Sister Superior. They shall never

kiss her hand, but whenever they meet her in the corridor or enter herself, they should say,

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