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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers 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 3.42. Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth. It purifies the

soul. In suffering, we learn who is our true friend. True love is measured by the

thermometer of suffering. Jesus, I thank you for the little daily crosses, for opposition

to my endeavors, for the hardships of communal life, for the misinterpretation of my intentions, for humiliations

at the hands of others, for the harsh way in which we are treated, for false suspicions,

for poor health and loss of strength, for self-denial, for dying to myself, for lack of recognition

in everything, for the upsetting of all my plans. Thank you, Jesus, for interior sufferings,

for dryness of spirit, for terrors, fears and incertitudes, for the darkness

and the deep interior night, for temptations and various ordeals, for torments too difficult

to describe, especially for those which no one will understand, for the hour of death, with its fierce

struggle and all its bitterness. I thank you, Jesus, you who first drank the cup of bitterness

before you gave it to me, in a much milder form.

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