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

diary entry number 1714. Today I interceded earnestly with the Lord Jesus for our house,

that he might deign to take away the cross which has touched our convent.

The Lord answered me,

Your prayers are accepted for other intentions.

I cannot take away this cross until they recognize its meaning.

Nevertheless, I did not stop praying.

A strong temptation.

The Lord gave me to know how pleasing a pure heart is to him,

and thereby I was given a deeper knowledge of my own misery.

When I began to prepare for confession,

strong temptations against confessors assaulted me. I did not see

Satan, but I could sense him, his terrible anger. Yes, he's an ordinary man, not ordinary,

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