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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary entry number 14.02.

God, in his unfathomable decrees often allows it to be that those who have expended

most effort in accomplishing some work do not enjoy its fruits here on earth. God reserves all their joy

for eternity.

But for all that, God sometimes lets me know how much their efforts please him,

and such moments strengthen them for further struggles and ordeals.

These are the souls that bear closest resemblance to the Savior,

who, in the work which he founded here on earth, tasted nothing but bitterness. Oh, my Jesus, may you be blessed for everything. I rejoice that

your most holy will is being accomplished. That is quite enough to make me happy. Hidden Jesus, in you lies all my

strength. From my most tender years, the Lord Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has attracted me to

himself. Once, when I was seven years old at a Vesper service conducted before the Lord

Jesus in the monstrance, the love of God was imparted to me for the first time and filled my little

heart, and the Lord gave me understanding of divine things. From that day until this, my love for the hidden God

has been growing constantly to the point of closest intimacy. All the strength of my soul flows

from the Blessed Sacrament. I spend all my free moments in conversation with him.

He is my master.

November 30, 1937.

When I was going upstairs this evening, a strange dislike for everything having to do with God suddenly came over me.

At that, I heard Satan, who said to me,

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