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 1110.

April 1937, The Lord gave me to know about the disputes that

were going on in the Vatican concerning this feast the dignitary Pachelli did much work on

this today is the renewal that is the profession of vows in the course

of a solemn celebration. As the sisters were making their vows, I heard angels singing in various

tones, holy, holy, with chanting so delightful that no human tongue could ever match it.

In the afternoon, I talked with my beloved mother-directoress of novices, Mother Mary Joseph.

We walked once around the garden, and I was able to have a talk with her, although it was a rather general one. She is ever the same

beloved mother-directoress of novices, although she is in fact no longer the directoress, but a superior,

and it is already ten years since I pronounced my vows. She told me that it is impossible for a

religious to live without the cross. However,

she revealed to me a certain suffering which I had experienced in Warsaw, although I had never told her about it.

All the graces which I had received during the novitiate came back vividly before the eyes of my soul.

Oh, how grateful I am to her.

When my soul was plunged in darkness, and it seemed to me that I was damned,

she wrenched me from that abyss by the power of obedience.

My soul is often burdened with suffering, and there is no human being

who can understand these torments. May 1st, 1937. Today I felt the nearness of my mother,

my heavenly mother, although before every Holy Communion, I earnestly ask

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