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Hello, I 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 1430. One day, I began to doubt as to how it was possible to feel this

continual decaying of the body, and at the same time to be able to walk and work. Perhaps this was some kind of an illusion.

Yet it cannot be an illusion because it causes me such terrible pains. As I was thinking about this,

one of the sisters came to converse with me. After a minute or two, she made a terribly

wry face and said, Sister, I smell a corpse here,

as though it were decaying. Oh, how dreadful it is. I said to her, do not be frightened, sister.

That smell of a corpse comes from me. She was very surprised and said she could not stand it any longer. After she had gone,

I understood that God had allowed her to sense this so that I would have no doubt,

but that he was no less than miraculously keeping the knowledge of this suffering from the whole community.

Oh, my Jesus, only you know the full depth of this sacrifice.

Nevertheless, when in the refectory I still had to bear being the object of the frequent

suspicion that I was being fussy about my food.

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