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 182.

I learned that certain people have a special gift for Beginning with Diary Entry Number 182.

I learned that certain people have a special gift for vexing others.

They try you as best they can.

The poor soul that falls into their hands can do nothing right.

Her best efforts are maliciously criticized.

Christmas Eve. Today I was closely united with the Mother of God. I relived her interior sentiments. In the evening, before the ceremony of the

breaking of the wafer, I went into the chapel to break the wafer in spirit with my loved ones,

and I asked the Mother of God for graces for them.

My spirit was totally steeped in God.

During the midnight Mass, Pasterka, or Shepherd's Mass, I saw the child Jesus in the host, and my spirit was immersed in him.

Although he was a tiny child, his majesty penetrated my soul.

I was permeated to the depths of my being by this mystery,

this great abasement on the part of God, this inconceivable emptying of himself.

These sentiments remained vividly alive in my soul all through

the festive season. Oh, we shall never comprehend this great self-abasement on the part of God.

The more I think of it, and then she leaves that thought unfinished.

One morning after Holy Communion, I heard this voice. I desire

that you accompany me when I go to the sick. I answered that I was quite willing, but after a

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