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 1714.

Today I interceded earnestly with the Lord Jesus for our house, that he might deign to take

away the cross which has touched our convent.

The Lord answered me, Your prayers are accepted for other intentions. I cannot take away this cross

until they recognize its meaning. Nevertheless, I did not stop praying. A strong temptation.

The Lord gave me to know how pleasing a pure heart is to him, and thereby I was given

a deeper knowledge of my own misery.

When I began to prepare for confession, strong temptations against confessors assaulted

me.

I did not see Satan, but I could sense him, his terrible anger.

Yes, he's an ordinary man.

Not ordinary, because he has the power of God.

Yes, it is not difficult for me to accuse myself of sins, but to uncover the most secret depths of my heart, to give an account of the action of God's grace,

to speak about God's every demand, about all that goes on between God and myself,

to tell that to a man is beyond my strength.

I felt I was fighting against the powers, and I cried out, O Christ,

you and the priest are one. I will approach confession as if I were approaching not a man,

but you. When I entered the confessional, I began by disclosing my difficulties.

The priest replied that the best thing I could have done was to disclose these temptations

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