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

Diary Entry Number 1488. Conversation of the Merciful God with a Soul striving after perfection.

Jesus, I am pleased with your efforts, O soul, aspiring for perfection, but why do I see you so often sad and depressed?

Tell me, my child, what is the meaning of this sadness, and what is its cause?

Soul.

Lord, the reason for my sadness is that, in spite of my sincere resolutions,

I fall again into the same faults. I make resolutions in the morning, but in the evening I see

how much I have departed from them. Jesus, you see, my child, what you are of yourself.

The cause of your falls is that you rely too much upon yourself and too little upon

on me.

But let this not sadden you so much.

You are dealing with the God of mercy, which your misery cannot exhaust.

Remember, I did not allot only a certain number of pardons.

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