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 No.5.

When I went to confession, I did not even know how to confess. However, the priest,

probably Father Kazmir Ratkevich, recognized the condition of my soul at once and said to me,

despite everything, you are on the way to salvation. You are on the right path,

but God may leave your soul in this darkness and obscurity until death, and the former light may

never return. But in all things, abandon yourself to the will of God. Today I started a novena to Our Lady of the Assumption for three intentions, first that I may

see the Reverend Dr. Sopocho, second, that God would hasten this work, and third, for the intention

of my country.

August 10th. Today I am returning to Krakow in the company of one of the sisters.

My soul is shrouded in suffering. I am continually uniting myself to him by an act of the will.

He is my power and strength. May you be blessed, O God, for everything

you send me. Nothing under the sun happens without your will. I cannot penetrate your secrets

with regard to myself, but I press my lips to the chalice you offer me.

Jesus, I trust in you, novena to the divine mercy, which Jesus instructed me to write

down and make before the Feast of Mercy.

It begins on Good Friday.

I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fountain of my mercy that they

may draw therefrom strength and refreshment, and whatever grace they need in the hardships

of life and especially at the hour of death.

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