Day 342: Diary Appendix 20 - Letter from March 24, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated March 24, 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.
To order a copy of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, visit ShopMercy.org.
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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, |
| 0:08.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to Father Sopocho, dated from March of 1937. |
| 0:31.6 | Jesus, Mary and Joseph, to most reverend and dear Father, I am sending you my heartfelt wishes for a happy Easter. |
| 0:40.9 | Alleluia. May the risen Christ endow you with His all-powerful love, because with it one can endure everything. |
| 0:46.2 | Let your heart, dear Father, melt away completely in God's love. |
| 0:58.1 | For all those who have shared in Jesus' suffering have a right to take part in Jesus' immense joys and glory. Thank you very much for your prayers and for the wishes for my name day. It gave me great pleasure to receive your letter, and I thanked the |
| 1:05.0 | Lord Jesus most heartily for it. I would very much like to know how your health is, dear Father, as you write so little about |
| 1:12.7 | yourself. I would also like to learn something more about all your activities, Father, as well as |
| 1:18.6 | about your efforts undertaken in this whole work of God. Let me just say here that your heart |
| 1:25.9 | should rejoice, dear Father, because great is the glory of God |
| 1:30.6 | and the benefit for souls thanks to this work. God himself has set up the throne of his mercy |
| 1:38.0 | upon earth. I see future times as if present. During this time of the Feast of Mercy, I am completely immersed in the depths of God |
| 1:49.0 | and unite myself intimately with the initiation of the worship of His mercy. |
| 1:56.0 | And now, as regards my own health, I am already completely well. The doctor decided to keep me in the |
| 2:04.8 | sanatorium throughout March, but on Holy Saturday, I am definitely going to, going back to the convent. |
| 2:12.7 | I am grateful to the Lord Jesus for this illness, because it gave me an opportunity to complete what you ordered me to do, dear Father, |
| 2:21.3 | that is, to put both diaries in order, and to underline what is not of me, but of the Lord Jesus. |
| 2:28.3 | I carried out everything as best I could, even though with a certain clumsiness. |
| 2:33.3 | I have already filled these two notebooks |
| 2:36.2 | and began the third one. If I had not been ill, I would not have had time to do this. |
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