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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 938.

The soul should have prayed ardently and at greater length for a director

and should have asked to the Lord himself to choose a spiritual director for it.

What begins in God will be godly, and what begins

in a purely human manner will remain human. God is so merciful that in order to help a soul,

he himself chooses the spiritual guide and will enlighten the soul concerning the one before whom it should

uncover the most hidden depths of its soul just as it sees itself before the Lord Jesus himself.

And when the soul considers and recognizes that God has been arranging all this, it should pray

fervently for the confessor,

that he might have the divine light to know it well, and let it not change such a director

except for a serious reason. Just as it had prayed fervently and at great length in order to

learn God's will before choosing a director, so too should it pray fervently and at great length in order to learn God's will before choosing a director, so too should it

pray fervently and at great length to discern whether it is truly God's will that he leave

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