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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 Kovalska from beginning

to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 462.

Now I understand well that what unites our soul most closely to God is self-denial, that is, joining our will to the will of God. This is what makes

the soul truly free, contributes to profound recollection of the spirit, and makes all life's

burdens light and death sweet. Jesus told me that if I should have any doubts regarding the feast or the founding of the congregation,

or regarding anything else about which I have spoken in the depths of your soul,

I will reply immediately through the mouth of this priest.

During a meditation on humility, an old doubt returned, that a soul, as miserable as mine,

could not carry out the task which the Lord was demanding of me.

Just as I was analyzing this doubt,

the priest who was conducting the retreat interrupted his train of thought and spoke about the

very thing I was having doubts about, namely that God usually chooses the weakest and simplest

souls as tools for his greatest works, that we can see that this

is an undeniable truth when we look at the men he chose to be his apostles, or again when we

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