Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 833.

I have experienced how much envy there is, even in religious life.

I see that there are few truly great souls, ready to trample on everything that is not God.

O soul, you will find no beauty outside of God. Oh, how fragile is the foundation of those who elevate themselves at the expense of others. What a loss. December 19, 1936. This evening, I felt in my soul that a certain person had need of my prayer. Immediately I began to pray.

Suddenly I realize interiorly and am aware of who the spirit is who is asking this of me. I pray until I feel at peace. There is great help

for the dying in this chaplet. I often pray for an intention that I have learned of

interiorly. I always pray until I experience in my soul that the prayer has had its effect.

Especially now, while I am in this hospital, I experience an inner communion with the dying,

who ask me for prayer when their agony begins.

God has given me a wondrous contact with the dying.

Since this has been happening more frequently, I have been able to verify God has given me a wondrous contact with the dying.

Since this has been happening more frequently, I have been able to verify it even to the exact

hour.

Today I was awakened suddenly at eleven o'clock at night and clearly felt the presence

near me of some spirit who was asking me for prayer. Some force simply compelled me to pray.

My vision is purely spiritual by means of a sudden light that God grants me at that moment.

I keep on praying until I feel peace in my soul, and not always for an equally long time,

because sometimes it happens that with one Hail Mary I am already at peace,

and then I say the day profundis, and pray no longer, and sometimes it happens that I pray the

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