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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 68. The heaviest suffering for me was that it seemed

to me that neither my prayers nor my good works were pleasing to God. I did not dare lift up my eyes to heaven.

This caused me such great suffering during the community exercises in the chapel that one day

Mother Superior, Raphael, called me aside after the exercises and said to me, sister, ask God

for grace and consolation, because I can see for

myself and the sisters keep telling me that the very sight of you evokes pity. I really do not

know what to do with you, sister. I command you to stop tormenting yourself for no reason.

But all these conferences with Mother Superior brought me no relief,

nor did they clarify anything for me. Rather, even greater darkness hid God from me. I looked

for help in the confessional, but not even there did I find it. A saintly priest wanted to help me,

but I was so miserable that I couldn't even

define my trouble, and that vexed him me even more. A deathly sadness penetrated my soul to such an

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