Hello, I follow 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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry No. 645.

Then I saw the Lord Jesus, as he is represented in the image,

and he said to me, tell the confessor that this work is mine,

and that I am using you as a lowly instrument.

And I said, Jesus, I can no longer do anything you command me to do because my confessor has told me that all this is an illusion and that I am not allowed to obey any of your commands. I will do nothing that you will tell me to do now. I am sorry, my Lord, but I am not allowed to do anything, and I must obey my confessor.

Jesus, I most earnestly ask your pardon. You know how much I suffer because of this,

but it can't be helped, Jesus. The confessor has forbidden me to follow your orders.

Jesus listens to my arguments and complaints with kindness and satisfaction.

I thought that the Lord Jesus would be grievously offended, but on the contrary, he was pleased,

and he said to me kindly, always tell your confessor about everything I say to you,

and command you to do, and do only that for which you obtain

permission. Do not be upset and fear nothing. I am with you. My soul was filled with joy,

and all those oppressive thoughts vanished. Certitude and courage entered my soul. But after a short while, I entered into the

sufferings which Jesus underwent in the Garden of Olives. This lasted until Friday morning.

On Friday I experienced the passion of Jesus, but this time in a different way.

On that day, Father Bukovsky came from dirty.

Some strange power pushed me to go to confession

and tell him about everything that had happened to me

and about what Jesus had said to me.

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