Day 349: Diary Appendix 27 - Letter from November 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
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Today we read a letter from Fr. Sopocko to St. Faustina, dated November 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 | Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception. |
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| 0:16.7 | and at divine mercyplus.org at 9 a.m. Eastern Time every morning. Together, let's consecrate our |
| 0:22.6 | lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception. |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:44.5 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of |
| 0:49.0 | St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we have a letter from Father Sopochko to St. Faustina from November of |
| 0:57.6 | 1937. November 1937, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, dear sister in Christ, every virtue and every Christian |
| 1:10.4 | deed should above all be prudent, for prudence is the |
| 1:14.6 | principal virtue of all. Prudence strongly resists haste to the extent that many people, feeling |
| 1:22.3 | compelled to do something, purposefully restrained from executing a deed in the conviction that if they carry it out, |
| 1:31.2 | they act badly. The Lord God, too, does not recommend unnecessary haste, and he himself acts calmly |
| 1:39.3 | in accordance with his eternal plan. He does not require haste from his servants, but prudent and |
| 1:46.9 | discrete actions. Masters of the spiritual life say that where there is haste, there is no divine action. |
| 1:55.3 | That is why we too must not act needlessly with haste. Let us curb our interior impulsions, asking God for assistance, |
| 2:04.7 | that he might arrange the conditions of action, for it is better to do nothing than to do something |
| 2:10.9 | badly, or to thwart God's plans through haste without discretion. I see God's action in this whole matter, and that is precisely |
| 2:21.5 | why I do not advise you to rush, as everything happens in its time. When God has determined, |
| 2:29.5 | what God has determined will happen, even if the greatest obstacles were to mount, for who is able to oppose the Creator. |
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