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 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,

you commanded me to ask for these mortifications, but Mother Superior will not permit them. Jesus said, I was here during your

conversation with the Superior and know everything. I don't demand mortification from you, but obedience.

By obedience, you give great glory to me and gain merit for yourself.

One of the mothers, probably Mother Jane, when she learned about my close relationship

with the Lord Jesus, told me that I must be deluding myself.

She told me that the Lord Jesus associates in this way only with the saints and not with

sinful souls like you sister after that

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