Hello, I've 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 933. Then I heard the following words in my soul.

You will receive a greater reward for your obedience and subjection to your confessor

than you will for the practices which you will be carrying out.

Know this, my daughter, and act accordingly.

Anything, no matter how small it be,

that has the seal of obedience to my representative,

is pleasing to me and great in my eyes.

Small practices for Lent.

Although I wish and desire to do so, I cannot practice big mortifications as before,

because I am under the strict surveillance of the doctor.

But I can practice little things.

First, sleep without a pillow. Keep myself a little hungry.

Every day with my arms outstretched, say the chaplet which the Lord taught me. Occasionally,

with arms outstretched, for an indefinite period of time, pray informally.

Intention to beg divine mercy for poor sinners and for priests,

the power to bring sinful hearts to repentance.

My contact with the dying is, just as it has been in the past, very close.

I often accompany a person who is dying far away.

But my greatest joy is when I see the promise of mercy fulfilled in these souls.

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