Day 356: Diary Appendix 33 - Letter from August 1938
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.3 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of |
| 0:09.6 | St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today, we have a letter from St. Faustina |
| 0:15.1 | to her superior general, Sister Mikala Maryshevvska from August of 1938. |
| 0:24.2 | Letter of August 1938, Jesus Mary and Joseph, dearest mother. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you most kindly for your secret note. |
| 0:34.0 | It was lovely. |
| 0:35.4 | I am also grateful for the news about Reverend Father Sopochko. He is truly a holy |
| 0:41.1 | priest. Dear Mother, it seems to me that this is our last conversation on earth. I feel very weak, |
| 0:49.3 | and I am writing with a trembling hand. I suffer as much as I am able to bear. Jesus does not give us anything beyond our |
| 0:57.5 | strength. If the suffering is great, then divine grace is likewise powerful. I completely abandoned |
| 1:05.4 | myself to God and to His holy will. An ever greater longing for God pervades me. |
| 1:12.5 | Death does not frighten me. |
| 1:14.4 | My soul abounds in deep peace. |
| 1:17.7 | I still complete all the spiritual exercises. |
| 1:21.9 | I also get up for Holy Mass, |
| 1:24.2 | but I do not stay till the end because I feel faint. |
| 1:29.4 | Nevertheless, as much as I can, |
| 1:33.8 | I do take advantage of the graces which Jesus has left to us in the church. |
| 1:40.4 | Dearest Mother, from my heart filled with gratitude, I thank you for all the good things I have experienced in the congregation since the very moment of entrance until now. |
| 1:46.6 | Dear Mother, I thank you particularly for your sincere compassion and advice in difficult |
| 1:52.0 | moments, which seemed impossible to endure. May God repay you generously. And now, in the spirit of religious humility, I most humbly apologize |
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