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 1610.

When I asked the Lord to be so good as to cast a glance upon a certain soul, probably Father

Sopocho, who was struggling alone against many difficulties, the Lord gave me to know,

in an instant that all people are as dust under his feet.

So do not worry. You see that they cannot do a thing of themselves, and if I allow them to seem to triumph,

I do this for the sake of my impenetrable decrees.

I experienced great peace in seeing how all things are determined by the Lord.

When the chaplain, Father Theodore, brings me the Lord Jesus.

There are moments when I am pervaded with a very

vivid presence of God, and the Lord gives me to know His holiness. At such times, I see the smallest

speck on my soul, and I would like to purify my soul before every Holy Communion.

When I asked the confessor, he said that there was no need to confess before every Holy Communion.

Holy Communion takes away these tiny things, and it is a temptation to think about confession

when receiving Holy Communion. I did not go on to explain

the condition of my soul in any greater detail because he was not my director, but the confessor.

This knowledge does not take up my time because it is faster than lightning. It inkindles my love, leaving me with

the knowledge of myself. February 20, 1938. Today the Lord said to me, I have need of your

sufferings to rescue souls. Oh my Jesus, do with me as you please.

I did not have the courage to ask the Lord Jesus

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