Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche, with 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 377.

Concerning Holy Confession, we should derive two kinds of prophet from Holy Confession.

One, we come to confession to be healed.

Two, we come to be educated.

Like a small child, our soul has constant need of education.

O my Jesus, I understand these words to their very depths. I know from my own experience

that, on its own strength, the soul will not go far. It will exert itself greatly and will do nothing for the glory of God.

It will err continually because our mind is darkened and does not know how to discern its own affairs.

I shall pay special attention to two things.

Firstly, I will choose, in making my my confession that which humiliates me most,

even if it be a trifle, but something that costs me much, and for that reason I will tell it.

Secondly, I will practice contrition, not only during confession, but during every self-examination,

and I will arouse within myself an act of perfect contrition, especially when I am going to bed.

One more word, a soul which sincerely wants to advance in perfection, must observe strictly the advice given by the spiritual

director.

There is as much holiness as there is dependence.

Once as I was talking with my spiritual director, I had an interior vision, quicker than lightning, of his soul,

in great suffering, in such agony that God touches very few souls with such fire. The suffering

arises from this work. There will come a time when this work, which God is demanding so very

much, will be as though utterly undone,

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