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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 Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 632. As I was taking leave of the sisters and was about to depart, one of them

apologized much to me for having helped me so little in my duties and not only for having neglected to help me,

but also for having tried to make things more difficult for me. However, in my heart, I regarded

her as a great benefactress because she has exercised me in patience to such an extent that one of the elder sisters had once said,

Sister Faustina must be either a fool or a saint, for truly an ordinary person would not tolerate

having someone constantly do such things out of spite. However, I had always approached her with good will. That particular

sister had tried to make my work more difficult to the point that, despite my efforts,

she had sometimes succeeded in spoiling what had been well done, as she herself admitted to

me at our parting, and for which

she begged my pardon. I had not wanted to probe her intentions, but took it as a trial from God.

I am greatly surprised at how one can be so jealous. When I see someone else's good, I rejoice at it as if it were mine.

The joy of others is my joy, and the suffering of others is my suffering. For otherwise,

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