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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 637. Confession. As I was preparing for confession, I said to Jesus hidden in the

blessed sacrament, Jesus, I beg you to speak to me through the mouth of this priest, and this will be assigned to me because he does not know at all that you want me to establish that congregation of mercy. Let him say something to me about this mercy.

When I approached the confessional and started my confession, the priest interrupted me

and started telling me about the great mercy of God, and he spoke more forcefully about it than I had ever heard anyone speak before.

And he asked me, do you know that the mercy of the Lord is greater than all his works, that it is the crown of his works. And I listened

attentively to these words which the Lord was speaking through the mouth of the priest. Although

I believe that it is always God who speaks through the lips of the priest in the confessional,

I experienced it in a special way on that occasion. Although I did not reveal

anything of the divine life which is in my soul and only accused myself of my offenses,

the priest himself told me very much of what was in my soul and put me under obligation

to be faithful to the inspirations of God. He said to me,

you are going through life with the mother of God who faithfully responded to every divine

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