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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 696.

September 24, 1936.

Mother Superior, Irene, ordered me to say one decade of the rosary in place of all the other exercises and

to go to bed at once. As soon as I lay down, I fell asleep, for I was very tired. But a while

later I was awakened by suffering. It was such a great suffering that it prevented me from making even the slightest

movement. I could not even swallow my saliva. This lasted for about three hours. I thought of waking

up the novice sister who shared my room, but then I thought she cannot give me any help,

so let her sleep.

It would be a pity to wake her.

I resigned myself completely to the will of God,

and thought that the day of my death, so much desired, had come.

It was an occasion for me to unite myself with Jesus, suffering on the cross. Beyond that, I was unable

to pray. When the suffering ceased, I began to perspire, but I still could not move as the pain

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