Hello, I 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 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. And the Lord says that every word will be

weighed on the day of judgment. The third light concerns our rules. I have not sufficiently

avoided the occasions that lead to breaking the rules, especially that of silence. I will act as if the rule were written just for me.

It should not affect me at all, how anyone else might act, as long as I myself act as God wishes.

Resolution. Whatever Jesus demands of me regarding external things, I will immediately go and tell my superiors.

I shall strive for childlike openness and frankness in my relations with the superior.

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