Day 356: Diary Appendix 33 - Letter from August 1938
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Sr. Michaela, dated August 1938. 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. |
| 0:25.5 | Together, let's consecrate our lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of our Lady the Immaculate Conception. Order my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor, |
| 0:29.8 | consecration to the Immaculate Conception, in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. |
| 0:35.5 | That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:44.6 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. |
| 0:49.1 | Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today, we have a letter from St. Faustina to her superior general |
| 0:55.8 | sister Miquela Maryshevska from August of 1938. Letter of August 1938, Jesus, Marian Joseph, |
| 1:08.6 | dearest mother. Thank you most kindly for your secret note. It was |
| 1:13.6 | lovely. I am also grateful for the news about Reverend Father Sopocho. He is truly a holy priest. |
| 1:21.6 | Dear Mother, it seems to me that this is our last conversation on earth. I feel very weak and I am writing with a trembling hand. |
| 1:31.3 | I suffer as much as I am able to bear. |
| 1:34.3 | Jesus does not give us anything beyond our strength. |
| 1:38.3 | If the suffering is great, then divine grace is likewise powerful. |
| 1:43.3 | I completely abandoned myself to God and to His holy will. |
| 1:48.1 | An ever greater longing for God pervades me. Death does not frighten me. My soul abounds in deep peace. |
| 1:57.0 | I still complete all the spiritual exercises. |
| 2:06.3 | I also get up for Holy Mass, but I do not stay till the end because I feel faint. |
| 2:13.1 | Nevertheless, as much as I can, I do take advantage of the graces which Jesus has left to us in the church. |
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