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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche, who the Marianth 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. Oh, 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 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,

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