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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with Diary Entry Number 118. The tongue is a small member, but it does big things.

A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness. That is, she will never become a saint.

Let her not delude herself, unless it is the spirit of God who is speaking through her,

for then she must not keep silent. But in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence

in one's soul, and to keep silence,

not a gloomy silence, but an interior silence, that is to say, recollection in God.

One can speak a great deal without breaking silence, and on the contrary, one can speak

little and be constantly breaking silence.

Oh, what irreparable damage is done by the breach of silence.

We cause a lot of harm to our neighbor, but even more to our own selves.

In my opinion, and according to my experience, the rule concerning silence should stand in the very first place.

God does not give himself to a chattering soul, which, like a drone in a beehive,

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