Day 158: Diary Entries 769-771

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 7 September 2024

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"I have noticed that the Lord grants this grace to souls for two purposes," 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	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.
0:44.7	Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of
0:49.3	St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with
0:55.8	diary entry number 769. I have noticed that the Lord grants this grace to souls for two purposes.
1:05.0	The first is when the soul is to do some great work, which is, humanly speaking, absolutely beyond its power.
1:13.5	In the second case, I have noticed that the Lord grants it in order that kindred souls might be
1:19.7	guided and set at peace, although the Lord can grant this grace as he pleases and to whomever he pleases. However, I have noticed this
1:30.9	grace in three priests, one of whom is a secular priest, probably Father Sopochko, and the other
1:37.8	two religious priests, probably Father Elter and Father Andrash, and also in two religious sisters, probably Mother Michael and Sister Mary Joseph, but not in the same degree.
1:54.0	As for myself, I received this grace for the first time, and that, for only a brief moment, in the 18th year of my life,
2:04.6	within the octave of Corpus Christi, June 18th to 25, 1925.
2:12.6	During Vespers, when I made to the Lord Jesus the vow of perpetual chastity, I was still living
2:20.0	in the world, but I entered the convent soon afterwards.
2:24.4	The grace lasted for a very brief moment, but its power was great.
2:30.1	After this grace there was a long interval.
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