Day 340: Diary Appendix 18 - Letter from January 31, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated January 31, 1937. 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. |
| 0:04.4 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. |
| 0:09.6 | Maria Faustina Cavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:13.2 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to Father Sopochco from January of 1937. Krakow Pradnik, 31st of January, 1937, |
| 0:26.6 | Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Reverend and dear Father, |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you very much for the wafer, and especially for remembering me. |
| 0:35.6 | I received your letter on the Fe feast of St. Stephen. I consumed |
| 0:40.1 | the wafer with love and in profound contemplation. It reminded me of the many special moments |
| 0:46.8 | and of God's benefits which I received there. May God continue to be blessed within us. |
| 0:54.0 | I would very much like to hear news about you, |
| 0:56.7 | dear father, how is your precious health? Because I feel that you are always suffering, |
| 1:02.3 | but this is a trait of God's chosen ones. I would like to know what the current situation of our |
| 1:08.9 | undertaking is. I would like to learn something about it, |
| 1:13.4 | not from my own interior, |
| 1:15.2 | not for my, |
| 1:16.1 | from my own interior knowledge, |
| 1:17.9 | but directly from you, Father. |
| 1:19.9 | I am always very happy to receive a sincere and open letter. |
| 1:25.1 | Although the truth is a little unpleasant for self-love, it always endows the |
| 1:30.9 | spirit with endurance and strength. I would like to say a few words about myself, Father. I was |
| 1:37.7 | truly overjoyed, that I was going to die, and that my spirit would be drowned forever in God, |
| 1:46.6 | as the only object of its love. |
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