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 895.

January 23, 1937

I did not feel like writing today,

then I heard a voice in my soul.

My daughter, you do not live for yourself, but for souls.

Write for their benefit. You know that my will as to your writing has been

confirmed many times by your confessors. You know what is pleasing to me, and if you have any

doubts about what I am saying, you also know whom you are to ask. I grant him light to pronounce judgment on my case.

My eye watches over him.

My daughter, you are to be like a child towards him,

full of simplicity and candor.

Put his judgment above all my demands. He will guide you according to my will.

If he doesn't allow you to carry out my demands, be at peace. I will not judge you,

but the matter will remain between me and him. You are to be obedient.

January 25, 1937.

Today my soul is steeped in bitterness.

O Jesus, O my Jesus, today everyone can add to my cup of bitterness.

It makes no difference whether they be friend or foe. They can all

inflict suffering on me. And you, O Jesus, are bound to give me strength and power in these

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