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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 331. Oh, how great a grace it is to have a spiritual director.

One makes more rapid progress and virtue, seize the will of God more clearly,

fulfills it more faithfully,

and follows a road that is sure and free of dangers.

The director knows how to avoid the rocks

against which the soul could be shattered.

The Lord gave me this grace rather late to be sure, but I rejoice in it

greatly, seeing how God inclines his will to my director's wishes. I will mention just one

incident out of a thousand that have happened to me. As I usually do, I ask the Lord Jesus one evening to give me the points for

next day's meditation. I received the answer, meditate on the prophet Jonah and his mission.

I thanked the Lord, but began to think within myself of how different that subject was from the others. But with all my

soul I strove to meditate about it, and I recognized myself in the person of the prophet,

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