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

diary entry number 1654. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, O truth, O thorny life, in order to pass through you

victoriously, it is necessary to lean on you, O Christ, and to be always close to you.

I would not know how to suffer without you, O Christ.

Of myself, I would not be able to brave adversities.

Alone, I would not have the courage to drink from your cup. But you, Lord, are

always with me, and you lead me along mysterious paths. A weak child, I have begun the battle in your

name. I have fought bravely, though often without success, and I know that my efforts

have pleased you, and I know that it is the effort alone which you eternally reward.

O truth, O life and death struggle, when I rose to do battle, an inexperienced night, I felt I had a night's blood, though still a child. And therefore, O Christ, I needed your help and protection. My heart will not rest from its efforts and struggle until you yourself call me from the field of battle.

I will stand before you not to receive a reward, but to be drowned in you, in peace, forever.

O Christ, if my soul had known all at once what it was going to have to suffer during its lifetime,

it would have died of terror at the very sight.

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