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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 number 1094.

April 17th.

Today, during a catechetical lecture by Father Theodore,

I was given a confirmation of what I had understood interiorly and lived by for quite some time,

namely that if a soul loves God sincerely and is intimately united with him, then even though such a soul may be living in the midst of difficult external circumstances, nothing can disturb its interior

life, and in the midst of corruption, it can remain pure and unsullied, because the great love of God gives its strength for battle,

and God also protects it in a special way, even in a miraculous way, a soul that loves

him sincerely. When one day God gave me the inner knowledge that I had never lost my innocence,

and that despite all dangers in which I had found myself, he himself had been guarding me,

so that the virginity of my soul and heart would remain intact,

I spent the day in fervent interior thanksgiving.

I thanked God that he had been pleased to protect me from evil,

and also for this, that I had found favor in his eyes, that he himself had given me assurance of this. And a few years later,

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