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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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1437.

Christmas Eve, 1937.

After Holy Communion, the Mother of God gave me to experience

the anxious concern she had in her heart

because of the Son of God. But this anxiety was permeated

with such fragrance of abandonment to the will of God that I should call it rather a delight

than an anxiety. I understood how my soul ought to accept the will of God in all things.

It is a pity I cannot write this the way I experienced it.

My soul was plunged in deep recollection all day long.

Nothing could tear me away from this recollection, neither duties nor the business I had with

lay people.

Before supper I went into the chapel for a moment to break the way for spiritually

with those beloved persons so dear to my heart, though far away.

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