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 251.

After perpetual vows, I stayed in Krakow throughout the month of May because it was

undecided whether I was to go to Rabka or to Vilnius.

Once Mother General Michael asked me, why are you sitting here so quietly and not getting ready to go

somewhere, sister? I answered, I want to do God's pure will. Wherever you bid me to go, dear mother,

I will know God's pure will for me will be there without any admixture on my part. Mother General replied to this, very well.

The next day she summoned me and said, You wanted to have God's pure will, sister.

Very well then.

You are going to Vilnius.

I thanked her and awaited the day when I would be told to go.

However, my soul was filled with a certain joy and fear

at one in the same time. I felt that God was preparing great graces for me there, but also great

sufferings. Yet I stayed on in Krakow until the 27th of May. As I had no regular duties, I only went to help in the garden, and as it

happened that I worked all alone for the whole month, I was able to make a Jesuit retreat.

Although I went to community recreation, I still managed to make the Jesuit retreat. I received

much light from God during this time.

It was four days after my perpetual vows. I was trying to make a holy hour. It was the first Thursday of the month.

As soon as I entered the chapel, God's presence enveloped me. I was distinctly aware that the Lord was near me. After a moment,

I saw the Lord all covered with wounds, and he said to me, look at whom you have espoused.

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