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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1387.

There are times in life when a soul is in such a state that it does not

seem to understand human speech. Everything tires it and nothing but ardent prayer will put it at

ease. In fervent prayer the soul finds relief, and even if it wanted explanations from creatures,

these would only make it more restless.

During one time of prayer I learned how pleasing to God was the soul of Father Andrash.

He is a true child of God. It is rare that divine sonship shines forth so clearly in a soul,

and this, because he has a special devotion to the Mother of God.

Oh, my Jesus, although I have such very strong impulsions,

I want to act on them slowly, and this only in order not to spoil

your work with my haste.

O my Jesus, you give me to know your mysteries, and you want me to transmit them to other souls.

Soon now it will be possible for me to act. At the moment of apparent absolute destruction,

my mission, now no longer hindered by anything, will begin. Such is the will of God in this,

and it will not change. Although many persons will oppose it, nothing will change God's will.

I see Father Sopochko how his mind is busily occupied and working in God's cause

in order to present the wishes of God to the officials of the church. As a result of his efforts, a new light will shine in the Church of God

for the consolation of souls. Although for the present, his soul is filled with bitterness,

as though that were to be the reward for his efforts in the cause of the Lord, this will not, however, be the case.

I see his joy which nothing will diminish. God will grant him some of this joy already

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