Day 11: Diary Entries 54-55
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
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"Go through life like a little child, always trusting, always full of simplicity and humility," St. Faustina writes. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic. To order a copy of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, visit ShopMercy.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, |
| 0:09.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 54. |
| 0:23.6 | One day, tired out from all these uncertainties, I asked Jesus, |
| 0:30.6 | Jesus, are you my God, or some kind of phantom? |
| 0:35.6 | Because my superiors say that there are all sorts of illusions and phantoms. |
| 0:41.3 | If you are my Lord, I beg you to bless me. |
| 0:45.3 | Then Jesus made a big sign of the cross over me, and I too signed myself. |
| 0:50.3 | When I asked pardon of Jesus for this question, he replied that I had in no way displeased him by this question, and that my confidence pleased him very much. |
| 1:03.9 | 1933, spiritual counsel given me by Father Andrash, S.J. |
| 1:10.3 | First, you must not turn away from these interior inspirations, but always tell everything |
| 1:17.2 | to your confessor. |
| 1:19.2 | If you recognize that these interior inspirations refer to your own self, that is to say, |
| 1:25.0 | they are for the good of your soul or for the good of other souls, |
| 1:28.3 | I urge you to follow them, and you must not neglect them, but always do so in consultation with your confessor. |
| 1:37.3 | Second, if these inspirations are not in accord with the faith or the spirit of the church, |
| 1:43.3 | they must be rejected immediately |
| 1:45.6 | as coming from the evil spirit. Third, if these inspirations do not refer to souls in general, |
| 1:53.8 | nor specifically to their good, you should not take them too seriously, and it would be better |
| 1:58.8 | to even ignore them. But you should not make |
| 2:02.2 | this decision by yourself, either one way or the other, as you can easily be led astray, despite |
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