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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 168.

When the person who's who strongly opposed my participation in the retreat beginning with diary entry number 168.

When the person who so strongly opposed my participation in the retreat saw me,

she showed surprise and dissatisfaction.

Paying no heed to this, I greeted her affectionately and went to visit the Lord in order to learn how I should conduct myself during the retreat.

My conversation with the Lord Jesus before the retreat.

Jesus told me that this retreat would be a little different from others.

You shall strive to maintain a profound peace in respect to your communings with me.

I will remove all doubts in this regard. I know that you are at

peace now as I speak to you, but the moment I stop talking to you, you will start looking for doubts.

But I want you to know that I will affirm your soul to such a degree that even if you want it to

be troubled, it will not be within your power.

And as a proof that it is I who am speaking to you, you will go to confession on the second

day of the retreat to the priest who is preaching the retreat.

You will go to him as soon as he has finished his conference, and will present to him all

your doubts concerning me.

I will answer you through his lips, and then your fears will end.

During this retreat observed strict silence that it will be as though nothing exists around

you.

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