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

beginning with Diary Entry Number 670.

O Jesus, my master and my director, it is only with you that I can converse. With no one else

is it so easy to talk as with you, O God. In my spiritual life,

I will always hold on to the priest's hand. About my soul's life and its needs, I will speak

only with my confessor. August 4, 1936. Inner torment for more than two hours. Agony. Suddenly,

God's presence pervades me, and I feel as though I am coming under the power of the just God.

His justice pervades me to the marrow. Outwardly I lose strength

and consciousness. With this, I come to know the great holiness of God and my own great misery.

A great torment afflicts my soul.

The soul perceives its deeds to be not without blemish.

Then the strength of trust is awakened in the soul, which longs for God with all its might.

Yet it sees how miserable it is, and what utter vanity everything that surrounds it and face to face with such holiness oh poor soul august 13th i was tormented by terrible temptations all day blasphemies thrust themselves upon my lips, and I felt an

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