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 32.

Another time I heard these words, Go to the Superior and ask her to allow you to make a daily

hour of adoration for nine days.

During this adoration, try to unite yourself in prayer with my mother.

Pray with all your heart in union with Mary, and try also during this time to make the way of the cross.

I received the permission, though not for a full hour, but only for whatever time was left me after I had carried out my duties.

I was to make this Navina for the intention of my motherland.

On the seventh day of the Navina, I saw, between heaven and earth, the mother of God, clothed in a bright robe. She was praying with her hands folded on

her bosom, her eyes fixed on heaven. From her heart issued forth fiery rays, some of which were

turned toward heaven while the others were covering our country. When I told this and certain other things to my confessor, he replied that these might really

be coming from God, but that they might also be an illusion.

Because of my frequent changes of assignment, I did not have a permanent confessor,

and besides I had a great difficulty in

speaking of these things. I prayed ardently that the Lord would give me that great grace,

that is, a spiritual director. My prayer was answered only after my perpetual vows when I went to

Vilnius.

The priest was Father Sopochko.

God had allowed me to see him in an interior vision even before I came to Vilnius.

Oh, if only I had had a spiritual director from the beginning, then I would not have wasted so many of God's graces.

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