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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 Cavalska from beginning to end. Today we have a note from Father

Sopochko to Sister Faustina from December of

1936. Reverend Sister, I hasten to send you my most sincere wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Above all, I wish you good health and ever more abundant divine graces to obtain, by your

entreaties, God's mercy for the world. Sharing the wafer with you is a symbol of peace and heavenly

love. I commend myself to your prayers. Reverend Mihau Sopocho, Vilnius, 24th of December, 1936.

Father Sopochko returns St. Faustina's greetings for Christmas in the New Year in a very short note.

He prays for her health and that God would pour out many graces on her so that she'd have

the strength to continue interceding for the world seeking God's mercy. He shares the traditional

Polish Christmas wafer with her. A small wafer was inserted into the letter.

This is a rectangular, it's like a Eucharistic host, but it's not consecrated, and it's very traditional for the polls to break a piece and share it with one another as they give Christmas

greetings each year.

He calls it a symbol of place, of peace, and heavenly love,

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