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 1381.

It occurred to me to take my medicine, not by spoonful, but just a little at a time,

because it was expensive. Instantly, I heard a voice, my daughter, I do not like such conduct,

except with gratitude everything I give you through the superiors,

and in this way you will please me more.

When Sister Dominic died at about one o'clock in the night, she came to me and gave me to know

that she was dead. I prayed fervently for her. In the morning the sisters told me that she

was no longer alive, and I replied that I knew because she had visited me. The sister

inframarian, Sister Chrysostom, asked me to help dress her, and then when I was alone with

her, the Lord gave me to know that she was still

suffering in purgatory. I redoubled my prayers for her. However, despite the zeal with which I

always pray for our deceased sisters, I got mixed up as regards to the days, and instead of offering

three days of prayer, as the rule directs us to do, by mistake,

I offered only two days. On the fourth day, she gave me to know that I still owed her prayers,

and that she was in need of them. I immediately formed the intention of offering the whole day for her,

and not just that day, but much

more, as love of neighbor dictated to me. Because Sister Dominic, after her death, gave the

appearance of looking so well, some sisters said that perhaps she was only in a coma,

and one of the sisters suggested to me that we ought to go

and put a mirror to her mouth to see if it would miss, because it would if she were alive.

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