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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers of the Emanclad 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 395. February 15, 1935, a visit for a few days to my family home

to see my dying mother. When I learned that my mother was seriously ill and near death,

and that she had asked that I come home,

as she wanted to see me once more before dying,

a host of emotions were awakened in my heart.

As a child, who sincerely loves its mother,

I wanted very much to fulfill her wish, but I left this to God and resigned myself completely to his will.

Paying no heed to the ache in my heart, I followed God's will.

On the morning of my name day, February 15th, Mother Superior gave me a second letter from

my family and granted me permission to go to my parents' home to fulfill the wish and request

of my dying mother.

I began at once to make the necessary preparations for the journey and left Vilnius in the

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