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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 151. Once, when I was in the kitchen with Sister N, she got

a little upset with me and as a punishment ordered me to sit on the table while she herself continued to work hard, cleaning and scrubbing.

And while I was sitting there, the sisters came along, and were astounded to find me sitting on the table, and each one had her say.

One said that I was a loafer and another what an eccentric. I was a postulant at the time. Others said, what kind of a

sister will she make? Still, I could not get down because the sister had ordered me to sit there

by virtue of obedience until she told me to get down. Truly, God only knows how many acts of

self-denial it took.

I thought I'd die of shame.

God often allowed such things for the sake of my inner formation,

but he compensated me for this humiliation by a great consolation.

During benediction, I saw him in great beauty.

Jesus looked at me kindly and said, My daughter, do not be afraid of sufferings.

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