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 314.

When I went to the garden one afternoon, with diary entry number 314.

When I went to the garden one afternoon, my guardian angel said to me, pray for the dying,

and so I began at once to pray the rosary with the gardeners for the dying.

After the rosary, we said various prayers for the dying. After the prayers, the wards began to chat gaily among themselves.

In spite of the noise they were making, I heard these words in my soul,

pray for me.

But as I could not understand these words very well, I moved a few steps away from the wards,

trying to think who it could be who was

asking me to pray. Then I heard the words, I am sister, this sister was in Warsaw while

I was at the time in Vilnius. Pray for me until I tell you to stop, I am dying.

Immediately I began to pray fervently for her, addressing myself to the

expiring heart of Jesus. She gave me no respite, and I kept praying from three o'clock until five.

At five, I heard the words, thank you, and I understood that she had died.

But during Holy Mass, on the following day, I continued to pray fervently for her soul.

In the afternoon a postcard came saying that sister had died at such and such a time.

I understood that it was at the same hour when she had said to me, pray for me.

Mother of God, your soul was plunged into a sea of bitterness. Look upon your child and teach her to suffer and to love while suffering.

Fortify my soul that pain will not break it. Mother of Grace, teach me to live

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