Day 157: Diary Entries 765-768

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

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"I suddenly saw a crowd of children who seemed to be no older than five to eleven years of age. When they saw me they surrounded me and began to cry out, 'Defend us from evil," 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. Support our Ministries here.

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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.
0:25.5	Together, let's consecrate our lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of our Lady the Immaculate Conception. Order my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor,
0:29.8	consecration to the Immaculate Conception, in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org.
0:35.5	That's shopmercy.org. God bless you.
0:40.1	Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
0:44.9	Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of
0:49.5	St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with
0:55.9	diary entry number 765. On one occasion, I saw the convent of the new congregation. As I walked about
1:05.9	inspecting everything, I suddenly saw a crowd of children who seemed to be no older than five to eleven
1:12.3	years of age. When they saw me, they surrounded me and began to cry out, defend us from evil.
1:19.6	And they led me into the chapel, which was in this convent. When I entered the chapel,
1:25.6	I saw the distressful Lord Jesus. Jesus looked at me graciously and said that he was gravely offended by children. You are to defend them from evil. From that moment, I have been praying for children, but I feel that prayer alone is not enough. Oh, my Jesus, you know what
1:48.1	efforts are needed to live sincerely and unaffectedly with those from whom our nature flees,
1:55.6	or with those who deliberately or not have made us suffer. Humanly speaking, this is impossible. At such times,
2:05.1	more than at others, I try to discover the Lord Jesus in such a person, and for this same Jesus,
2:12.6	I do everything for such people. In such acts, love is pure, and such practice of love gives the soul
2:21.7	endurance and strength. I do not expect anything from creatures, and therefore I am not disappointed.
2:29.9	I know that a creature is poor of itself, so what can one expect from it?
2:38.0	God is everything for me.
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