Hello, I, 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 155.

It has happened to me for some time now that I immediately sense in my soul when someone is praying for me, and I likewise sense it in my soul when some soul asks me for prayer,

even though they do not speak to me about it. The feeling is one

of certain disquiet, as if someone were calling me, and when I pray I obtain peace.

Once I desired very much to receive Holy Communion, but I had a certain doubt, and I did

not go. I suffered greatly because of this.

It seemed to me that my heart would burst from the pain.

When I said about my work, my heart full of bitterness,

Jesus suddenly stood by me and said,

My daughter,

Do not omit Holy Communion unless you know well that your fall was

serious. Apart from this, no doubt must stop you from uniting yourself with me in the mystery

of my love. Your minor faults will disappear in my love like a piece of straw thrown into a great furnace.

Know that you grieve me much when you fail to receive me in Holy Communion.

In the evening, when I entered the small chapel I heard these words in my soul.

My daughter, consider these words,

and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. When I started to think about them more deeply,

much light streamed into my soul. I learned how much we need perseverance in prayer, and that our salvation often depends on such difficult prayer. When I was in Kyrksk to 1930 to replace one of the

sisters for a short time, I went across the garden one afternoon and stopped

on the shore of the lake. I stood there for a long time, contemplating my surroundings.

Suddenly I saw the Lord Jesus near me, and he graciously said to me, all this I created for you, my spouse, and know that all this beauty is nothing

compared to what I have prepared for you in eternity. My soul was inundated with such consolation

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