Day 28: Diary Entries 98-100
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
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Summary
"Then my physical strength began to fail me, and I could no longer carry out my duties," 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'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey |
| 0:09.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 98. |
| 0:20.0 | The Trial of Trials beginning with Diary Entry Number 98. |
| 0:27.6 | The trial of trials, complete abandonment, despair. |
| 0:32.6 | When the soul comes out victorious from the preceding trials, even though it may stumble here and there, |
| 0:35.6 | it fights on valiantly, humbly calling upon God, save me, I am perishing, and it is still able to fight on. |
| 0:45.3 | At this point, however, the soul is engulfed in a horrible night. |
| 0:50.3 | It sees within itself only sin. It feels terrible. |
| 0:55.0 | It sees itself completely abandoned by God. |
| 0:59.0 | It feels itself to be the object of his hatred. |
| 1:02.0 | It is but one step away from despair. |
| 1:06.0 | The soul does its best to defend itself. |
| 1:09.0 | It tries to stir up its confidence, but prayer is an even greater |
| 1:13.6 | torment for it, as this prayer seems to arouse God to an even greater anger. The soul finds itself |
| 1:20.8 | poised on the summit of a lofty mountain on the very brink of a precipice. The soul is drawn to God, but feels repulsed. All other |
| 1:31.9 | sufferings and tortures in the world are as nothing compared with this sensation into which |
| 1:37.1 | it has been plunged, namely that of being rejected by God. No one can bring it any relief. It finds itself completely alone. There |
| 1:48.3 | is no one to defend it. It raises its eyes to heaven, but is convinced that this is not for |
| 1:54.7 | her. For her all is lost. It feels deeper and deeper. It falls deeper and deeper from darkness to darkness, |
| 2:03.6 | and it seems to it that it has lost forever the God it used to love so dearly. This thought is |
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