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, he deigned to confirm me in this grace.

And since that time, I have not experienced the rebellion of the senses against the soul.

I have written this down in greater detail elsewhere in my diary.

See paragraph number 40. As often as I recall this inconceivable grace,

a fresh flame of love and gratitude to God bursts forth from my heart.

And this same love leads me to complete forgetfulness of self.

Since that time, I have been living under the virginal cloak of the Mother of God. She has been

guarding me and instructing me. I am quite at peace, close to her immaculate heart, because I am so weak and

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