Hello, I 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 132.

I must again mention that there are some confessors who seem to be true spiritual fathers,

but only as long as things go well. When the soul finds itself in greater need, they become

perplexed and either cannot or will not understand the soul. They try to get rid of the person as soon as possible.

But if the soul is humble, it will always profit in some little way or other.

God himself will sometimes cast a shaft of light into the depths of the soul because of its humility and faith.

The confessor will sometimes say

something he had never intended to say without even realizing it himself. Oh, let the soul believe

that such words are the words of the Lord himself. Though indeed we ought to believe that every

word spoken in the confessional is God's, what

I have referred to above is something that comes directly from God.

And the soul perceives that the priest is not master of himself, that he is saying things

that he would rather not say.

This is how God rewards faith. I have experienced this many times myself.

A certain, very learned and respected priest, probably Father Vilkowski, the sister's confessor

at Potsk, to whom I sometimes happened to go to confession, was always severe and opposed to these matters which I

brought to him but on one occasion he replied to me bear in mind sister that if God

is asking this of you you should not oppose him God sometimes wants to be

praised in just this way be at peace peace. What God has started, he will finish.

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