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 Kowalska, from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry number 902.

January 29, 1937.

I overslept today, a little longer, and I would have been too late for Holy Communion,

because the chapel is a good distance from our section.

When I went outdoors, the snow was knee-deep, but before it occurred to me that the doctor would not have allowed me to go out in such snow, I had already come to the Lord in the chapel.

I received Holy Communion and was back in no time. I heard these words in my soul. My daughter, rest close to my heart.

Known to me are your efforts.

My soul is more joyful when I am close to the heart of my God.

January 30, 1937, One Day Retreat.

I have come to know God's greatness more and more and to rejoice in Him.

I remain unceasingly with Him in the depths of my heart.

It is in my own soul that I most easily find God.

During my meditation, I heard these words.

My daughter, you give me most glory by patiently submitting to my will, and you win for yourself greater merit than that which any fast or mortification could ever gain for you.

Know, my daughter, that if you submit your will to mine, you draw upon yourself my special delight.

This sacrifice is pleasing to me and full of sweetness.

I take great pleasure in it. There is power in it.

Examination of conscience. Continuation of the same to unite myself to the merciful Christ.

Practice interior silence, that is, strict observance of silence.

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