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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 7. When I experienced these sufferings for the first time,

it was like this. After the annual vows, on a certain day, during prayer, I saw a great brilliance, and issuing

from the brilliance rays which completely enveloped me.

Then suddenly I felt a terrible pain in my hands, my feet, and my side, and the thorns

of the crown of thorns. I experienced these sufferings during

Holy Mass on Friday, but this was only for a brief moment. This was repeated for several Fridays,

and later on, I did not experience any sufferings up to the present time, that is, up to the end of September of this year.

In the course of the present illness during Holy Mass one Friday, I felt myself pierced by the

same sufferings, and this has been repeated on every Friday and sometimes when I meet a soul

that is not in the state of grace.

Although this is infrequent and the suffering lasts a very short time, still it is terrible

and I would not be able to bear it without a special grace from God.

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