Day 357: Diary Appendix 34 - Letter from January 1937
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Sr. Irena, dated January 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. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, |
| 0:08.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to her superior sister Irena from January of 1937. |
| 0:27.6 | Pradnik, 1st of January, 1937, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, dearest mother, |
| 0:31.6 | I remember that on New Year's Day, |
| 0:34.6 | Sister Assistant offers an apology to you, dear Mother Superior, on behalf of all the |
| 0:40.6 | sisters. So on this day, I unite myself in spirit with my dear sisters, and I too humbly apologize |
| 0:48.9 | to you, beloved Mother Superior, for all the sorrows I have caused you, Mother, in the course of the last year. |
| 0:56.8 | I humbly beg your forgiveness and ask for your blessing for the year 1937, so that every single |
| 1:04.0 | day of this year will be for the greater glory of God. I wish you the Lord's abundant graces, |
| 1:14.2 | dear Mother, and particularly health for work and strength for God. I wish you the Lord's abundant graces, dear mother, and particularly health for work and strength for suffering, as this is what is needed the most in God's service. I fervently asked |
| 1:21.4 | the infant Jesus that he deign to hold our house close to his merciful little heart, and I feel in the depths of my soul |
| 1:29.5 | that he takes special pleasure in dwelling among our hearts. At the close of the old year, |
| 1:37.0 | and in reparation to the Lord Jesus, I made a holy hour from nine till ten o'clock, and I also prayed a little longer than usual. |
| 1:46.5 | Then, at 12 midnight, I united myself in spirit with the whole congregation in spirit, and welcomed |
| 1:54.1 | the new year. And now, as regards my health, it is neither better nor worse, but I am trying to do my best, |
| 2:03.9 | that is, to say, to profit by all means at my disposal to recover. As for the rest, let God do |
| 2:12.7 | as he pleases. I would like to ask you, dear mother, for soap, two envelopes, and two stamps, |
| 2:20.3 | since I would like to write to Mother General more often. I wrote a short note with New Year |
| 2:27.6 | wishes to every sister. Please do with them as you see fit, mother. I kiss your hand and ask your prayers sister faustina |
| 2:38.7 | this is a letter to sister irena krisianovsky her the superior of her local house in |
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