Day 23: Diary Entry 93a
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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Summary
"Why do religious vows have such value?" 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I follow Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 93. A short version of the Catechism of the Vows. |
| 0:25.6 | What is a vow? |
| 0:27.6 | A vow is a voluntary promise made to God to carry out a more perfect act. |
| 0:33.6 | Is a vow binding in a matter which is the object of a commandment? |
| 0:38.3 | Yes, the carrying out of an act which is the object of a commandment has a double value and merit, |
| 0:45.3 | and the neglect of such an act is a double transgression and evil, because by breaking such a vow, |
| 0:51.3 | we add to the sin against the commandment the sin of sacrilege. Why do religious vows have such a vow, we add to the sin against the commandment, the sin of sacrilege. Why do religious |
| 0:57.4 | vows have such value? Because they are the foundation of the religious life, approved by the church, |
| 1:04.0 | in which the members bound together in a religious community undertake to strive always for |
| 1:10.0 | perfection by means of the three religious |
| 1:12.6 | vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience observed according to the rules. What is the meaning of the |
| 1:20.7 | words strive for perfection? To strive for perfection means that the religious life does not in |
| 1:27.0 | itself demand that perfection be already attained, |
| 1:30.3 | but obliges, under the pain of sin, that we work daily to attain it. |
| 1:35.3 | Therefore, a religious who does not want to become perfect neglects his principal duty of state. |
| 1:42.3 | What are solemn religious vows? |
| 1:46.0 | Solem religious vows are so absolute that in extraordinary cases only the Holy Father can dispense from them. |
| 1:53.0 | What are simple religious vows? |
| 1:56.0 | These are vows which are less absolute. |
| 1:58.0 | The Holy See dispenses from perpetual and annual vows. |
| 2:02.9 | What is the difference between a vow and a virtue? A vow pertains only to that which is |
| 2:08.3 | commanded under pain of sin. The virtue goes beyond this and helps in the carrying out of |
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