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 145.

Oh, how wretched my soul is for having wasted so many graces. I was running away from God, and he pursued me with His graces.

I most often experienced God's graces when I least expected them.

From the moment he gave me a spiritual director, I have been more faithful to grace.

Thanks to the director and his watchfulness over my soul, I have learned what guidance means

and how Jesus looks at it.

Jesus warned me of the least fault and stressed that he himself

judges the matter that I present to my confessor, and he told me that any transgressions against

the confessor touch me myself. When under his direction my soul began to experience deep recollection and peace,

I often heard these words in my soul, strengthen yourself for a combat, repeated over and over

at various times. Jesus often makes known to me what he does not like in my soul, and he has more than once rebuked me for what seemed to be trifles, but which were in fact things of great importance. He has warned me and tried me like a master. For many years, he himself educated me until the moment when he gave me a spiritual director.

Previously, he himself had made clear to me what I did not understand,

but now he tells me to ask my confessor about everything and often says,

I will answer you through his mouth. Be at peace.

It has never happened to me that I have received an answer

which was contrary to what the Lord wanted of me

when I presented it to the spiritual director, Father Sopochko.

It sometimes happens that Jesus first asks certain things of me,

about which no one knows anything, and then,

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