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 655.

May 11, 1936, I came to Krakow.

I was happy that at last I shall be able to carry out all that the Lord Jesus was demanding.

Once when I was speaking with Father A. Andrash, and had told him everything, I received this answer.

Sister, pray till the day of the feast of the most sacred heart, and add some mortification to the prayer,

and on the feast of the sacred heart I will give you an answer.

But one day I heard this voice in my soul. Fear nothing. On the feast of the sacred heart, I will give you an answer.

But one day I heard this voice in my soul.

Fear nothing, I am with you.

After these words, I felt such an urgency within me that without waiting for the feast

of the sacred heart, I said during confession that I was going to leave the congregation immediately.

Father answered, Sister, since you have made the decision by yourself, then take the responsibility

for yourself. Go. I was happy to be leaving. The following morning, God's presence suddenly

left me.

A great darkness came over my soul.

I could not pray.

Because of this sudden loss of the presence of God,

I decided to postpone the matter for a while until I had talked with Father.

Father A, Andrash, answered that such changes in souls were frequent

and that this was not an obstacle to action. When I talked to Mother General, Michael, about

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