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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 772. Great is the mutual exchange between the soul and God. When the soul

leaves its concealment, the senses get a taste of what the soul has delighted in.

Although this is also a great grace from God, it is not a purely spiritual one,

for in the first moments the senses do not take part.

Every grace gives the soul power and strength to act and courage to suffer. The soul

knows very well what God is asking of it, and it carries out his holy will despite adversities.

Yet the soul cannot proceed on its own in these matters.

It must follow the advice of an enlightened confessor, for otherwise it could go astray or gain no profit.

Oh my Jesus, I understand well that just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever

tells us of the seriousness of the illness, so also in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer

which measures the love of God in a soul. My goal is God, and my happiness is in accomplishing his will,

and nothing in the world can disturb this happiness for me, no power, no force of any kind.

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