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 115.

When a soul has come out of these tribulations, it is deeply humble.

Its purity of soul is great.

It knows better without need of reflecting, as it were, what it ought to do at a given moment and what to forbear.

It feels the lightest touch of grace and is faithful to God.

It recognizes God from afar and continuously rejoices in Him. It discovers God very quickly

in other souls and in the environment in general. The soul has been purified by God himself.

God, as pure spirit, introduces the soul to a life which is purely spiritual.

God himself has first prepared and purified the soul, that is, he has made it capable of close communion with himself.

The soul, in a state of loving repose, communes spiritually with the Lord.

It speaks to God without the need of expressing itself through the senses.

God fills it with his light.

The enlightened mind sees clearly and distinguishes the various

degrees of the spiritual life. It recognizes that state when its union with God was imperfect,

where the senses were involved, and the spirit was linked with the senses in a manner exalted and special

to be sure, but not yet perfect. There is a higher and more perfect union with God, namely

intellectual union. Here the soul is safer from illusions. Its spirituality is purer and more profound. In a life where the senses

are involved, there is more danger of illusion. Both for the soul and for its confessor,

prudence must play a greater part. There are moments when God introduces the soul to a purely

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