Day 12: Diary Entries 56-57
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 14 April 2024
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Summary
"At the beginning of my religious life, suffering and adversities frightened and disheartened me," St. Faustina writes. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic.
The Lord’s “Secretary of Divine Mercy,” St. Faustina, wrote what has become a modern-day spiritual classic — a blueprint for living a sacramental life in union with Jesus Christ. For anyone who may think the Diary is too thick and formidable, Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, has the solution. Join him for a few minutes each day as he reads from the Diary and offers commentary. Over the span of one year, you will have “read" the Diary, beginning to end, and absorbed its rich teachings.
To order a copy of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, visit ShopMercy.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.4 | Follow along with my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaclet |
| 0:09.8 | Conception, live on Facebook at the Marion Helpers page, Instagram at the Divine Mercy, |
| 0:16.7 | and at divine mercyplus.org at 9 a.m. Eastern Time every morning. Together let's consecrate our |
| 0:22.6 | lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:27.6 | Order my book, Shining in Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaculate Conception, |
| 0:32.1 | in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:45.6 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of |
| 0:50.9 | St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:55.0 | Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 56. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh my God, I understand well that you demand this spiritual childhood of me, |
| 1:10.0 | because you are constantly asking it of me through your |
| 1:13.6 | representatives. |
| 1:14.6 | At the beginning of my religious life, suffering and adversities frightened and disheartened me, |
| 1:21.6 | so I prayed continuously, asking Jesus to strengthen me and to grant me the power of His Holy Spirit, |
| 1:30.3 | that I might carry out His will in all things, because from the beginning I have been aware of my weakness. |
| 1:38.3 | I know very well what I am of myself, because for this purpose, Jesus has opened the eyes of my soul. |
| 1:48.0 | I am an abyss of misery, and hence I understand that whatever good there is in my soul |
| 1:54.8 | consists solely of His holy grace. |
| 1:59.7 | The knowledge of my own misery allows me, at the same time, to know the |
| 2:04.9 | immensity of your mercy. In my own interior life, I am looking with one eye at the abyss of my |
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