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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 595. I have noticed many times that God tries certain people on account of those

things about which he spoke to me. For mistrust displeases Jesus. Once, when I saw that God had tried

a certain Archbishop, Yalbzikovsky, because he was opposed to the cause and distrustful of it,

I felt sorry for him and pleaded with God for him, and God relieved his suffering.

God is very displeased with lack of trust in him, and this is why some souls lose many graces.

Distrust hurts his most sweet heart, which is full of goodness and incomprehensible love for us.

A priest should sometimes be distrustful in order to better ascertain the genuineness of gifts bestowed on a given soul, and when he does so,

in order to direct the soul to deeper union with God, his will be a great and incomprehensible

reward indeed. But there is a great difference between this

and disrespect and distrust of divine graces in a soul

simply because one cannot comprehend and penetrate these things with one's mind,

and this latter is displeasing to the Lord.

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