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 letter from Father Sopocho to St. Faustina from February of 1937.

Reverend Sister, on the occasion of your name day, Sister Faustina,

I am sending you my most cordial wishes,

above all, God's graces, and the proper fulfillment of God's will in everything.

Please take advantage of your health and time to fill in the gaps in your

diary. You should take special care to make a note of everything that does not come from

you, sister, and underline these things, in particular those words as I have asked on several

occasions. What you add of yourself is less important. You should thank God

for your health and not endanger it in the future. The special gaze of the Lord, which you

mentioned, should be received with gratitude, but also with profound humility, since it is not

your merit, sister, but a freely granted grace of God's mercy, which you should adore continually because of it.

Please act exactly as Father Andrash advises and instructs, I am ill indeed.

But it is better to serve the Lord in suffering, for he suffered much more for us.

As regards the congregation, nothing new has occurred, the hurdles are still the same, and

besides there are no people as yet.

We should prepare, or rather pray, that the Lord prepare

everything. I commend myself to your prayers, Reverend M. Sopocho, Vilnius, 14th of February, 1937.

Father Sopachco here replies to St. Faustina's letter two weeks later.

He sends her greetings on the occasion of her feast day, which falls on February 15th.

He prays for the proper fulfillment of God's will in everything.

In her last letter, she had written that Father Andrash was not allowing her

to make any definite decisions about leaving her community until she was completely well and

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