Day 350: Diary Appendix 28 - Letter December 24, 1937 (Part 1)
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 16 March 2024
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Fr. Sopocko, dated December 24, 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 | Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.4 | Follow along with my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaclet |
| 0:09.8 | Conception, live on Facebook at the Marion Helpers page, Instagram at the Divine Mercy, |
| 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. |
| 0:27.6 | Order my book, Shining in Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaculate Conception, |
| 0:32.0 | in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. Hello, I'm Father Joe |
| 0:41.8 | Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. Thank you for joining us as we continue |
| 0:46.5 | with our year-long journey reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:52.3 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to Father Sopochko from December of |
| 0:57.3 | 1937. Krakow 24th of December 1937, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, to you, dearest Father in Jesus Christ, |
| 1:10.4 | I am sending you my most heartfelt Christmas wishes. |
| 1:13.6 | May you receive many graces from the divine infant, in particular health and strength, |
| 1:19.6 | for the apostolic task of spreading the work of mercy. |
| 1:23.6 | On Christmas Eve at half past 4 p.m., I shall share the wafer with you, dear Father, at the feet of the most blessed sacrament. |
| 1:32.5 | Through the most sacred heart of Jesus, I am sending you my most sincere expressions of gratitude for your great dedication to God's work and to my soul. |
| 1:42.7 | Now I understand everything better, and would certainly take better advantage of your weekly |
| 1:48.0 | spiritual direction, dear Father. |
| 1:51.0 | Thank you very much for your letter and especially for your advice about prudence and |
| 1:56.0 | acting slowly. |
| 1:57.0 | I indeed wrote that letter straight from the heart, whereas you, dear father, replied exclusively with your mind. |
| 2:05.3 | Yet your words have sunk deeply into my soul, bringing profound peace. |
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