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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 269.

Once, when I had finished a novena to the Holy Spirit for the intention of my confessor, Father Sopochko,

the Lord answered, I made him known to you even before your superiors had sent you here.

As you will act towards your confessor, so I will act towards you.

If you conceal something from him, even though it be the least of my graces, I too will hide myself from you, and

you will remain alone. And so I followed God's grace, and a deep peace filled my soul.

Now I understand how the Lord defends confessors and how he protects them.

Advice of the Reverend Dr. Sopochko.

Without humility, we cannot be pleasing to God.

Practice the third degree of humility, that is, not only must one refrain from explaining

and defending oneself when reproached with something,

but one should rejoice at the humiliation.

If the things you are telling me really come from God, prepare your soul for great suffering.

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