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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immacquacconception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the Diary of

Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning

with diary entry number 129. Satan always takes advantage of such moments. Thoughts of discouragement

began to rise to the surface. For your faithfulness and sincerity, this is your reward? How can one be

sincere when one is so misunderstood? Jesus, Jesus, I cannot go on any longer. Again, I fell to the

ground under this weight, and I broke out in a sweat, and fear began to overcome me.

I had no one to lean on interiorly.

Suddenly I heard a voice within my soul.

Do not fear.

I am with you.

And an unusual light illumined my mind, and I understood that I should not give in to such sorrows.

I was filled with a certain strength, and left myself with new courage to suffer.

Nevertheless, I began to grow a bit negligent. I did not pay attention to these interior

inspirations, and tried to distract myself.

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