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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 112 at

notebook page number 53.

I will mention one more thing regarding the confessor.

It is his duty to occasionally put to the test, to try to exercise, to learn

whether he is dealing with straw, with iron, or with pure gold. Each of these three types of

souls needs different kinds of training. The confessor must, and this is absolutely necessary,

form a clear judgment of each soul

in order to know how heavy a burden it can carry at certain times, in certain circumstances,

or in particular situations. As for myself, it was only later on, after many negative experiences,

that when I saw that I was not understood,

I no longer laid bare my soul or allowed my peace to be disturbed.

But this happened only when all these graces had already been submitted to the judgment of a wise, well-instructed, and experienced confessor.

Now I know what to go by in certain cases.

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