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 1799.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. entry number 1799.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

I feel that there is a power which is defending me and protecting me from the blows of the enemy.

It guards and defends me.

I feel it very distinctly.

It is as if I am being shielded by the shadow of his wings. My Jesus,

you alone are good. Even if my heart were to make every effort to write of your goodness,

at least in part, I could not do so. This is beyond all our comprehension. One day during Holy Mass, the Lord gave me a deeper

knowledge of His holiness and His Majesty, and at the same time I saw my own misery. This knowledge

made me happy, and my soul drowned itself completely in His mercy.

I felt enormously happy.

On the following day I had a clear awareness of the following words.

You see, God is so holy, and you are sinful, do not approach him, and go to confession every day. And indeed, whatever I

thought of seemed to me to be a sin, but I did not omit going to Holy Communion, and I resolved to

go to confession at the prescribed time as I had no clear impediment. But when the day for confession came, I prepared a whole

mass of those sins which I was to accuse myself, of which I was to accuse myself. However,

in the confessional, God allowed me to accuse myself of only two imperfections, despite my efforts to make a confession according to what I had

prepared. When I left the confessional, the Lord said to me, my daughter, all those sins you

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