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 Entry Number 228

O 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 no means, I have by no means become a perfect nun. 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.

With the trust and simplicity of a small child, I give myself to you today, O Lord Jesus, my master.

I leave you complete freedom in directing my soul.

Guide me along the paths you wish.

I won't question them.

I will follow you trustingly.

Your merciful heart can do all things."

The little novice of Jesus, Sister Faustina.

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