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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 842. Sister Chrysostom came to visit me today. She brought some lemons and apples

and a tiny Christmas tree. I was delighted with them. Through Sister Chrysostom, Mother Superior asked the doctor,

Adam Silberg, to let me come home for Christmas, and he readily agreed. I was very happy,

and burst into tears like a little child. Sister Chrysostom was surprised that I looked so bad and had changed so much, and she told

me, you know, little Faustina, probably you will die.

You must be suffering a great deal, sister.

I answered that I was suffering more that day than on other days, but that it was nothing, and that for the salvation

of souls, it was not too much. O merciful Jesus, give me the souls of sinners. December 24, 1936,

during Holy Mass today, I was united in a particular way with God and His Immaculate Mother.

The humility and love of the Immaculate Virgin penetrated my soul.

The more I imitate the Mother of God, the more deeply I get to know God.

Oh, what infinite longing envelops my soul. Jesus, how can you still leave me in this exile?

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