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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 28.

Once, Jesus told me, go to Mother Superior, probably Mother Raphael, and ask her to let you wear a hair

shirt for seven days, and once each night you are to get up and come to the chapel. I said yes,

but I found a certain difficulty in actually going to the Superior. In the evening Jesus asked me, how long will you put it off? I made up my mind to tell Mother

Superior the very next time I would see her. The next day, before noon, I saw Mother Superior going to the

refectory, and since the kitchen, Refectory, and St. Aloysia's little room are all close to each other,

I asked Mother Superior to come into Sister Aloysia's room and told her of the wish of the Lord Jesus.

At that, Mother answered, I will not permit you to wear any hair shirt. Absolutely not.

If the Lord Jesus were to give you the strength of a

colossus, I would then permit those mortifications. I apologized for taking out mother's time

and left the room. At that very moment I saw Jesus standing at the kitchen door and I said

to him,

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