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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 335.

Once, when I saw Jesus, beginning with diary entry number 335.

Once, when I saw Jesus in the form of a small child, I asked, Jesus, why do you now take on the form of a child when you come to me, communed with me?

In spite of this, I still see in you the infinite God, my Lord and Creator.

Jesus replied that until I learned simplicity and humility, he would commune with me as a little child.

1934. During Holy Mass, when the Lord Jesus was exposed in the Blessed Sacrament, before

Holy Communion, I saw two rays coming out from the Blessed Host, just as they are painted

in the image, one of them red and the other pale. And they were reflected on each of the

sisters and wards, but not on all in the same way.

On some of them the rays were barely visible.

It was the last day of the children's retreat.

November 22, 1934.

On one occasion, my spiritual director, Father Sopochko, told me to look carefully into

myself and to examine whether I had any attachment to some particular object or creature,

or even to myself, or whether I engaged in useless chatter. For all these things, he said,

get in the way of the Lord Jesus, who wants

complete freedom in directing your soul. God is jealous of our hearts, and wants us to love him alone.

When I started to look deep within myself, I did not find any attachment to anything, but

as in all things that concern me, so also in this matter I was afraid and distrustful of

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