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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 349.

In the morning, during meditation, I felt a painful thorn in the left side of my head.

The suffering continued all day.

I meditated continually about how Jesus had been able to endure the pain of so many thorns which made up his crown. I joined my suffering to the sufferings of Jesus and offered it for sinners.

At four o'clock, when I came for adoration, I saw one of our words offending God greatly by sins of impure thoughts. I also saw a certain person who was

the cause of her sin. My soul was pierced with fear, and I asked God for the sake of Jesus's

pain to snatch her from this terrible misery. Jesus answered that he would grant her that

favor, not for her sake, but for the sake of my request.

Now I understood how much we ought to pray for sinners, and especially for our wards.

Our life is truly apostolic. I cannot imagine a religious living in one of our houses, that is, in our community,

and not have an apostolic spirit.

Zeal for the salvation of souls should burn in our hearts.

Oh my God, how sweet it is to suffer for you, suffer in the most secret recesses of the heart, in the greatest

hiddenness, to burn like a sacrifice noticed by no one, pure as crystal, with no consolation

or compassion. My spirit burns in active love. I waste no time in dreaming. I take every moment singly as it comes,

for this is within my power. The past does not belong to me, the future is not mine.

With all my soul, I try to make use of the present moment.

January 4, 1935, the first chapter of Mother Borja.

At the chapter, Mother Borja stressed a life of faith and fidelity in small things.

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