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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry No. 479.

My second confession to the Archbishop, Yalbzikovsky,

Know, my daughter, that if this is the will of God, it will take place sooner or later,

for God's will must be done.

Love God in your heart, have, and then the thought is left unfinished.

September 29th, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.

I have become interiorly united with God.

His presence penetrates me to my very depths depths and fills me with peace, joy, and

amazement. After such moments of prayer, I am filled with strength and an extraordinary courage

to suffer and struggle. Nothing terrifies me, even if the whole world should turn against me all adversities touch only the surface

but they have no entry to the depths because god who strengthens me who fills me dwells there all the snares of the enemy are crushed at his footstool. During these moments

of union, God sustains me with his might. His might passes on to me and makes me capable

of loving him. A soul never reaches this state by its own efforts.

At the beginning of this interior grace I was filled with fright, and I started to give

into it, but very quickly the Lord let me know how much this displeases him.

But it is also he himself who set my fears at rest.

Almost every feast of the church gives me a deeper knowledge of God and a special grace.

That is why I prepare myself for each feast and unite myself closely with the spirit of the church.

What a joy it is to be a faithful child of the church. Oh, how much I love Holy Church and all those who live in it.

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