Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marriott Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey,

reading the diary of St. Maria Vastina Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1635.

Jesus orders me to write all this for the consolation of other souls who will often be exposed to similar sufferings. Although I was feeling very weak, I went to see

the doctor, Silberg, because that was the superior's will. The sister, who was my companion,

was very unhappy about this. She made this known to me several times, and finally said,

what are we going to do? I don't have enough money to pay for the cab. I answered nothing.

And what if there is no cab? How are we going to get, how are we

going to get there? It's such a long way. She said this and many other things, just to worry me,

because our dear superiors had given us enough money for everything, and we didn't run short.

And understanding this whole business within myself,

I laughed and told Sister that I was not worried one bit.

Let's trust in God.

But I saw that my deep peace was getting on her nerves,

and so I started to pray for her intention.

Oh, my Lord, all this is for you and to obtain mercy for poor sinners.

When I returned, I was so very tired that I had to lie down right away, but it was the

day for the quarterly confession.

I tried to go to confession not only because I had need to do so, but also to ask advice of my spiritual

director, Father Andrash. I began to prepare myself. However, I felt so weak that I decided to go

ask Mother Superior Irene to allow me to go before the novices. Mother Superior answered,

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