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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 42.

Once, on Christmas Day, 1928, I felt the omnipotence and the presence of God surrounding me,

and once more I fled from the interior meeting with the Lord.

I asked Mother Superior for permission to go to Josephinek

to visit the sisters there. The Superior gave us permission and we started to get ready right after lunch.

The other sisters were already waiting for me at the door of the convent while I ran to my cell to get my cloak.

On my way back, as I was passing close to the little chapel,

I saw Jesus standing in the doorway.

He said to me, go ahead, but I am taking your heart.

Suddenly I felt that I had no heart in my chest,

but the sisters were scolding me for lingering behind, saying that it was already getting late, so I quickly went along with them.

But a sense of uneasiness troubled me, and a strange longing invaded my soul,

though no one knew what was happening except God.

After we had been at Josephinek for only a few minutes, I said to the sisters, let's go back home.

The sisters asked for at least a moment's rest, but my spirit could find no peace.

I explained that we must return before dark, and inasmuch as we had quite a distance to go, we immediately returned home. When Mother Superior met us in the hallway, she asked me, haven't the sisters gone yet, or have they already returned?

I said that we had already returned because I did not want to be returning in the evening. I took off my

cloak and immediately went to the little chapel. As soon as I entered, Jesus said to me,

go to Mother Superior and tell her that you came back not in order to reach home before dark,

...