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 58.

One night, a sister who had died two months previously, came to me.

She was a sister of the first choir.

I saw her in a terrible condition, all in flames, with her face painfully distorted. This lasted only

a short time and then she disappeared. A shudder went through my soul because I did not know

whether she was suffering in purgatory or in hell. Nevertheless, I redoubled my prayers for

her. The next night she came again, but I saw her in an even more

horrible state. In the midst of flames, which were even more intense, and despair was written

all over her face. I was astonished to see her in a worse condition after the prayers I had

offered for her, and I asked, haven't my prayers helped you?

She answered that my prayers had not helped her, and that nothing would help her.

I said to her, and the prayers which the whole community has offered for you, have they not been

any help for you?

She said, no, that these prayers had helped some other souls.

I replied, if my prayers are not helping you, sister, please stop coming to me.

She disappeared at once.

Despite this, I kept on praying.

After some time she came back again to me during the night, but already her appearance had changed.

There were no longer any flames, as there had been before, and her face was radiant, her eyes

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