Day 193: Diary Entries 981-989

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

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"O Jesus, in the depths of my soul I understand that the greatest achievements cannot compare with one act of pure love for You," 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. 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,
0:32.0	in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you.
0:40.3	Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
0:45.3	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 Diary Entry Number 981.
1:00.0	I understood that these two years of interior suffering which I have undergone in submission to God's will,
1:08.0	in order to know it better, have advanced me further in perfection than the
1:13.2	previous ten years. For two years now, I have been on the cross between heaven and earth,
1:20.3	that is to say, I am bound by the vow of obedience and must obey the superior as God himself.
1:31.3	And on the other hand, God makes his will known to me directly, and so my inner torture is so great
1:34.3	that no one will either understand or imagine these spiritual sufferings.
1:40.3	It seems to me that it would be easier to give up my life than to go again and again through one hour of such pain.
1:48.8	I am not even going to write much about this matter, because one cannot describe what it is like to know God's will directly,
1:57.0	and at the same time to be perfectly obedient to the divine will as expressed indirectly through the superiors.
2:05.6	Thanks be to God that he has given me a director, otherwise I would not have advanced one single step.
2:13.5	I recently received a lovely letter from my dear 17-year-old sister Wanda.
2:18.8	She is begging and entreating me to help her enter the convent.
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