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 Cavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry No. 628.

On the evening of the last day, before my departure from Vilnius, an elderly sister revealed the condition of her soul to me.

She said that she had already been suffering interiorly for several years, that it seemed to her that all her confessions had been bad, and that she had doubts as to whether the Lord Jesus had forgiven her.

I asked her if she had ever told her confessor about this.

She answered that she had spoken many times about this to her confessors,

and the confessors are always telling me to be at peace, But still, I suffer very much, and nothing brings me relief.

And it constantly seems to me that God has not forgiven me.

I answered, You should obey your confessor, sister, and be fully at peace, because this

is certainly a temptation.

But she entreated me with tears in her eyes to ask Jesus if he had forgiven her, and

whether her confessions had been good or not.

I answered forcefully, ask him yourself, sister, if you don't believe your confessors.

But she clutched my hand and did not want to let me go until I gave her an answer,

and she kept asking me to pray for her and to let her know what Jesus would tell me about her.

Crying bitterly, she would not let me go and said to me,

I know that the Lord Jesus speaks to you, sister. Since she was clutching my

hand and I could not wrench myself away, I promised her, I would pray for her. In the evening,

during benediction, I heard these words in my soul. Tell her that her disbelief wounds my heart more than the sins she committed. When I told her this,

she began to cry like a child, and great joy entered her soul. I understood that God

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