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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 273. Annual retreat, January 10, 1934. My Jesus, again, the moment

approaches when I will be alone with you.

Jesus, I ask you with all my heart, let me know what there is in me that displeases you,

and also let me know what I should do to become more pleasing to you.

Do not refuse me this favor, and be with me. I know that without you, Lord, all my efforts will not amount to much.

Oh, how I rejoice at your greatness, O Lord. The more I come to know you, the more ardently I yearned for you and sigh after you.

Jesus, give me the grace of knowing myself.

In this divine light, I see my principal fault.

It is pride, which takes the form of my closing up within myself,

and of a lack of simplicity in my relations with Mother Superior, Irene.

The second light concerns speaking. I sometimes talk too much. A thing could be settled in one

or two words, and as for me, I take too much time about it. But Jesus wants me to use that time to say some short indulgenced prayers for the souls in purgatory.

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