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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 421.

April 29, 1935.

On the eve of the exposition of the image, I went with our Mother Superior to visit our

confessor, Father Sopochko. When the conversation touched upon the image, the confessor asked for one of the sisters to help make some wreaths.

Mother Superior replied, Sister Faustina will help.

I was delighted at this, and when we returned home, I immediately set about preparing some greens,

and with the help of one of our wards brought them over.

Another person, who works at the church, also helped.

Everything was ready by seven o'clock that evening, and the image was already hanging in its place.

However, some ladies saw me standing around there, for I was more a bother than a help, and on the next

day they asked the sisters what this beautiful image was, and what was its significance.

Surely these sisters would know, they thought, as one of them had helped adorn it the

day before.

The sisters were very surprised, as they knew nothing

about it. They all wanted to see it, and immediately they began to suspect me. They said,

Sister Faustina must certainly know all about it. When they began asking me, I was silent,

since I could not tell the truth.

My silence increased their curiosity, and I was even more on my guard not to tell a lie and

not to tell the truth, since I had no permission to do so.

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