Day 343: Diary Appendix 21 - Note from Easter, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
Marian Press
4.9 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today we read a note from Fr. Sopocko to St. Faustina, dated March 28, 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.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, |
| 0:08.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Cavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we'll read a note from Father Sopochko to Sister Faustina at Easter in 1937. |
| 0:20.0 | A note with Father M. Sopachko's Easter, at Easter in 1937. |
| 0:27.4 | A note with Father M. Sopachco's Easter wishes for Sister M. Faustina. |
| 0:34.5 | Reverend Sister Faustina in the sanatorium, Ward 1, Krakow, |
| 0:46.3 | 80 Pradnika Street from Reverend M. Sopuchko, Vilnius, 11 St. Anne's Street. A Happy Easter, 1937, to Sister Faustina, Reverend Mihau Sapuchko. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, Father Sapuchko was very brief in his Easter greetings to St. Faustina that year, |
| 1:04.0 | merely writing Happy Easter to her in the card. Perhaps he was very busy. |
| 1:10.0 | It gives us a chance to tell a bit more about Father Sopachco. You can find more about him at the website which is dedicated to him, Sopocto.org. And Sopachco is spelled S-O-P-O-C-O-C-O-D-O-R. |
| 1:32.1 | I will summarize some of the things that can be found there on the website. |
| 1:36.9 | The new congregation that Father Sopachco founded on behalf of St. Faustina was called the Sisters of the Merciful Jesus. He founded them |
| 1:46.8 | in 1941, three years after the death of St. Faustina. Jesus had asked for a new congregation |
| 1:54.6 | dedicated to spreading his message of mercy. Now Sister Faustina's original community now does that as well. Her community is called |
| 2:05.5 | the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. They were originally called the Magdalene sisters after |
| 2:12.9 | Mary Magdalene. They helped girls who were living sinful lives on the streets of Paris. Their community |
| 2:22.1 | expanded to Poland from France in the 1800s. Now the sisters eventually helped girls with all kinds |
| 2:30.2 | of different problems, and because of St. Faustina and the messages of the divine mercy, |
| 2:35.7 | that became a new focus for the congregation. The community that Father Sopochka founded |
| 2:43.1 | found its roots in a prayer group that he had formed in Vilnius. He assisted them in their |
| 2:50.2 | formation. The charism came from Jesus's request |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marian Press, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marian Press and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.