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

diary entry number 599. On one occasion, after a person had asked me for prayer, when I met the

Lord, I said to him, Jesus, I especially love those souls whom you love. And Jesus answered, and as for me,

I bestow special graces on those souls for whom you intercede. How wondrously Jesus defends me.

Truly, this is a great grace of God which I have experienced for a long time now.

Once, when one of our sisters became fatally ill, and all the community was gathered together,

there was also a priest there who gave the sister absolution.

Suddenly I saw many spirits of darkness. Then, forgetting that I was with the sisters,

I seized the holy water sprinkler and sprinkled the spirits, and they disappeared at once.

However, when the sisters came to the refectory, Mother Superior Borgia remarked that I should

not have sprinkled the sick sister in the presence of the priest, as this was his duty.

I accepted the admonition in the spirit of penance, but Holy Water is indeed of great help to the dying.

My Jesus, you see how weak I am of myself. Therefore, you yourself direct my affairs,

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