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 174.

At that moment, the priest came in and began the conflagration. beginning with diary entry number 174.

At that moment, the priest came in and began the conference.

He spoke for a short time, as if he were in a hurry.

After the conference, he went over to the confessional.

Seeing that none of the sisters were going there,

I sprang up from my kneeler, and in an instant was in the confessional.

There was no time to deliberate.

Instead of telling the father about the doubts that had been sown in me in respect to my dealings with the Lord Jesus,

I began to speak about these temptations I have just described above.

The confessor immediately understood my situation and said,

Sister, you distrust the Lord Jesus because he treats you so kindly. Well, sister, be completely at peace.

Jesus is your master, and your command communing with him is neither daydreaming nor hysteria nor illusion.

Know that you are on the right path.

Please try to be faithful to these graces.

You are not free to shun them.

You do not need at all, sister, to tell your superiors about these interior graces unless the Lord Jesus instructs you clearly to do so.

And even then, you should first consult with your confessor.

But if the Lord Jesus demands something external, in this case, after consulting your

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