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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 Kavalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 149.

When the Lord himself wants to be close to a soul and to lead it, he will remove everything that is external.

When I fell ill and was taken to the infirmary, I suffered much

unpleasantness because of this. There were two of us sick in the infirmary. Sisters would

come to see Sister N, but no one came to visit me. It is true that there was only one

infirmary, but each one had her own cell.

The winter nights were long, and Sister End had the light and the radio headphones,

while I could not even prepare my meditation for lack of a light.

When nearly two weeks had passed in this way, I complained to the Lord one evening

that I was suffering so much that I could not even

prepare my meditation because there was no light. And the Lord said that he would come every evening

and give me the points for the next day's meditation. These points always concerned his

sorrowful passion. He would say, consider my sufferings before Pilate,

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