Day 347: Diary Appendix 25 - Letter from May 6, 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated May 6, 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. |
| 0:04.7 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. |
| 0:10.0 | Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:13.8 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to her spiritual director, Father Sopochko, from May of 1937. |
| 0:21.6 | Krakow, 6th of May, 1937, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Reverend Father. |
| 0:29.6 | I thank you from the bottom of my heart for responding to my request. |
| 0:34.6 | This letter caused me deep joy. I would also like to thank the |
| 0:40.0 | Archbishop for these few words. I am a faithful daughter of the church, and I will not depart by |
| 0:47.0 | a hair breath from holy obedience. I know that God's time has not yet come with regard to this congregation, so I am leaving |
| 0:56.7 | it to divine providence. |
| 0:59.5 | Since the Archbishop has not given his permission, I too have less responsibility before |
| 1:05.7 | God and I will refrain from doing anything externally in this matter until favorable external circumstances |
| 1:13.3 | come about, which will be a proof that God demands this. |
| 1:18.0 | I am satisfied with the Archbishop's reply, and I remain in profound peace regarding this work. |
| 1:25.3 | In spirit, I kiss the hands and feet of the most reverent Archbishop, |
| 1:29.7 | and in my soul I bear him great respect. Following your suggestion, Father, with all my soul, |
| 1:37.2 | I direct my efforts towards this feast in order to help you, Father, in this great divine work, |
| 1:47.4 | through my prayer and my whole burnt offering of myself, I shall entreat God's blessing for you, dear Father, as regards this whole matter. |
| 1:55.3 | And I was immensely happy that the news about the Feast of Mercy is reaching an ever larger circle of people. |
| 2:02.9 | It seems to me that however profoundly you speak and write about this mercy of God, Father, |
| 2:09.1 | all this is still but a shadow in comparison with what the unfathomable mercy of God is in reality. |
| 2:17.6 | And even if you were to use the strongest words to proclaim this mercy, |
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