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 164.

Jesus Mary and Joseph, Warsaw, 1933,

Probation before perpetual vows.

When I learned I was to go for probation, my heart beat with joy

at the thought of such an immense grace, that of the

perpetual vows. I went before the blessed sacrament, and when I immersed myself in a prayer

of Thanksgiving, I heard these words in my soul. My child, you are my delight. You are the comfort

of my heart. I grant you as many graces as you can hold.

As often as you want to make me happy, speak to the world about my great and unfathomable mercy.

A few weeks before I was told about the probation, I entered the chapel for a moment, and Jesus said to me,

at this very moment, the superiors are deciding which sisters are going to take perpetual vows.

Not all of them will be granted this grace, but this is their own fault.

He who does not take advantage of small graces will not receive great ones.

But to you, my child, this grace is being given.

My soul was seized with joyful surprise, because a few days earlier one of the sisters

had said to me, Sister, you will not be going for the third probation.

I myself will see to it that you will not be permitted to make your vows.

I said nothing to the sister, but felt great pain, which I tried to conceal as best I could.

O Jesus, how strange are your ways. I now see that people can do very little on their own, for I did make my probation,

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