Day 344: Diary Appendix 22 - Letter from April 11, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated April 11, 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 her spiritual director, Father Sopochco, from April of 1937. |
| 0:29.8 | Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Reverend Father, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the note with your Easter greetings, and even more so for the weekly in which the article about God's |
| 0:37.1 | mercy is published. It filled my soul with |
| 0:40.3 | unimaginable joy. I feel in my soul that the worship of the divine mercy is already spreading, |
| 0:48.2 | thanks to your efforts and endeavors, Father. Reverend Father, I would be most obliged if you could provide answers to the following questions. |
| 0:58.9 | I would like to know what the current situation regarding this congregation is. Are there any |
| 1:05.2 | prospects for beginning this work of God, or is the Archbishop opposed to the whole matter? |
| 1:11.6 | Father Andrash tells me that I can ask to be dispensed from the congregation and set about the work with great caution. |
| 1:20.6 | He tells me that I might find it easier to begin in Vilnius. He also drew my attention to two things, namely that I should have |
| 1:30.4 | explicit consent, that is, the permission of the Arch Shepherd, and secondly, that any |
| 1:38.3 | conditions should be such that one can begin this matter, I was thinking that you could discuss it with the |
| 1:46.2 | Archbishop. |
| 1:50.6 | Rout, father, or if you think it would be better for me to write to him, I will do so, |
| 1:56.6 | because I am also mindful of not spoiling other efforts, which have already been undertaken in this |
| 2:02.6 | respect by you, Father. I intend to leave for Vilnius at the beginning of May, while all formalities |
| 2:10.6 | concerning my dispensation from the congregation can be arranged by mail. I would like that the |
| 2:17.2 | congregation be begun under the following conditions. |
| 2:20.3 | First of all, there must be at least three acres of land. It may be a plot of land, but it must be big enough to build a convent on it, |
| 2:30.3 | and there must remain enough land to make a garden. The property does not have to be in the |
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