Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marrient 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 232.

Before confession, I heard these words in my soul.

My daughter, tell him everything and reveal your soul to him as you do before me.

Do not fear anything. It is to keep you in peace that I place this priest

between your soul and myself. The words he will speak to you are my words. Reveal to him

your soul's greatest secrets. I will give him light to know your soul. When I approached the confessional, I felt so much at ease in my soul about speaking of everything

that later on I myself was astounded.

His answers brought a great peace into my soul.

His words were, are, and always will be, pillars of fire, which enlightened and will

go on enlightening my soul in its pursuit of the greatest sanctity. The directions I received

from Father Andrash, I have noted on another page in this notebook. See Diary Number 55. When I finished this confession,

my spirit was immersed in God, and I prayed for three hours, but it seemed to me like only a few

minutes. Since then, I have placed no obstacles in the way of grace working in my soul. Jesus knew why I had

been afraid to commune intimately with him and was not at all offended. From the moment the priest assured

me that what I had experienced was not an illusion, but the grace of God. I have tried to be faithful to God

in everything. I can see now that there are few such priests who understand the full depth of

God's work in the soul. Since then, my wings have been set free for flight, and I yearn to soar

into the very fire of the sun. My flight will not come

to an end until I rest in him forever. When we fly very high, all the vapors, mists, and clouds

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