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, 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. You will encounter disapproval and persecution. They will

look upon you as a hysteric and an eccentric, but the Lord will lavish his graces upon you.

True works of God always meet opposition and

are marked by suffering. If God wants to accomplish something, sooner or later he will do so in spite

of the difficulties. Your part, in the meantime, is to arm yourself with great patience.

When the Reverend Dr. Sopochoka went to the Holy Land, Father Dambrovsky, a Jesuit, was the community's confessor.

During one confession he asked me if I was aware of the high degree of spiritual life

that was present in my soul. I answered that I was aware of it and knew what was going on within me.

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