Day 345: Diary Appendix 23 - Addendum from April 15, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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Summary
Today we read an addendum to a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated April 15, 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. Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we have an addendum to a letter from St. Faustina to her spiritual director, Father Sopoko, from April 15, 1937. |
| 0:24.2 | I'd like to add a few more words to this letter, which I wrote to you, dear father, |
| 0:28.8 | on April 11th, but I am only sending it on April 15th, because I was waiting for a clear |
| 0:35.3 | sign of God's will as to whether I should send it or not. |
| 0:40.0 | When I had written this letter, I suddenly began to feel very bad in my lungs. |
| 0:45.6 | A terrible coughing racked me, and I felt much worse than I did at the time they sent me for treatment. |
| 0:53.0 | I was forced to lie down in bed, and it seemed to me that |
| 0:56.6 | if this coughing were to seize me a few more times, it would surely be the end of me. And I thought |
| 1:05.2 | within myself that probably it was not God's will for me to leave this convent as I felt so much worse. |
| 1:13.6 | Therefore, I did not send this letter and waited for a clear sign of God's will. |
| 1:19.6 | Today I am finishing the novena to the Holy Spirit concerning this matter, |
| 1:24.6 | and I once again felt so unwell today that it seemed to me that I would not be able |
| 1:29.9 | to go down to the chapel. Yet, mustering up all my strength, I went to the chapel. When I received |
| 1:37.9 | Holy Communion, I do not know why I began to pray in this manner. Jesus, may your pure and healthy blood circulate in my poor |
| 1:48.4 | ailing organism, and may your pure and healthy body transform my weak, unhealthy body, |
| 1:57.0 | and may a healthy and vigorous life flow once again within me, if it is truly your |
| 2:03.0 | holy will that I should set about the work in question, and this will be a clear sign of |
| 2:09.2 | your holy will for me. |
| 2:11.6 | As I was praying in this way, I suddenly felt as if something were jolting my whole organism, and in an instant I felt |
| 2:19.4 | completely well. My breath was clear, as if there had never been anything to matter with my lungs, |
| 2:26.1 | and this was a sign for me that I should set about the work with full energy. |
| 2:32.4 | I do apologize, dear father, that I write so much about myself, |
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