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 1238.

August 12th.

On passing through Krakow, Reverend Father Sopochko paid me a short visit today.

I had wanted to see him, and God fulfilled my desire.

This priest is a great soul, entirely filled with God.

My joy was very great, and I thanked God for this great grace,

because it was for the greater glory of God that I wanted to see Him.

O living host, O hidden Jesus, you see the condition of my soul. Of myself, I am unable to utter your holy name. I cannot bring forth from my

heart the fire of love, but, kneeling at your feet, I cast upon the tabernacle the gaze of my soul,

a gaze of faithfulness. As for you, you are ever the same. While within my soul, a gaze of faithfulness. As for you, you are ever the same, while within my soul a change

takes place. I trust that the time will come when you will unveil your countenance, and your child

will again see your sweet face. I am astonished, Jesus, that you can hide yourself from me for so long,

and that you can restrain the enormous love you have for me. In the dwelling of my heart, I am listening

and waiting for your coming, O only treasure of my heart.

The Lord Jesus greatly protects his representatives on earth.

How closely he is united with them, and he orders me to give priority to their opinion over his.

I have come to know the great intimacy

which exists between Jesus and the priest.

Jesus defends whatever the priest says

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