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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 228.

Oh Jesus, hidden in the blessed sacrament.

You see that in pronouncing my perpetual vows, I am leaving the novitiate today, Jesus.

You know how weak and little I am, and so from today on I am entering your novitiate in a very special way.

I continue to be a novice, but your novice, Jesus, and you will be my master

to the last day. Daily I will attend lectures at your feet. I will not do the least thing by myself

without consulting you first as my master. Jesus, how happy I am that you yourself have drawn me and taken me into your novitiate,

that is to say, into the tabernacle. In making my perpetual vows, I have by no means become a perfect

none. No, no, I am still a weak little novice of Jesus,

and I must strive to acquire perfection as I did in the first days of the novitiate,

and I will make every effort to keep the same disposition of soul which I had on that first day,

the convent gate opened to admit me.

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