Day 5: Diary Entries 24-27
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 7 April 2024
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Summary
"I trust in Your words because You are Truth and Life," St. Faustina writes. 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. Thank you for |
| 0:07.8 | joining me as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina |
| 0:13.1 | Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry |
| 0:20.0 | number 24. One day, just as I had awakened, |
| 0:25.7 | when I was putting myself in the presence of God, I was suddenly overwhelmed by despair, |
| 0:31.6 | complete darkness in the soul. I fought as best I could till noon. In the afternoon, truly deadly fears began to seize me. My physical |
| 0:43.4 | strength began to leave me. I went quickly to my cell, fell on my knees before the crucifix, |
| 0:50.3 | and began to cry out for mercy. But Jesus did not hear my cries. I felt my physical strength |
| 0:57.7 | leave me completely. I fell to the ground, despair flooding my whole soul. I suffered terrible |
| 1:05.7 | tortures in no way different from the torments of hell. I was in this state for three-quarters of an hour. |
| 1:13.1 | I wanted to go and see the directress, but was too weak. |
| 1:17.2 | I wanted to shout, but I had no voice. |
| 1:20.8 | Fortunately, one of the sisters, another novice, |
| 1:23.2 | Sister Placida Putira, came into my cell. |
| 1:27.2 | Finding me in such a strange condition, she immediately told the directress about it. |
| 1:32.2 | Mother came at once. |
| 1:34.2 | As soon as she entered the cell, she said, in the name of holy obedience, get up from the ground. |
| 1:40.3 | Immediately some force raised me up from the ground, and I stood up close to the dear mother |
| 1:45.8 | directress. |
| 1:47.5 | With kindly words, she began to explain to me that this was a trial sent to me by God, |
| 1:53.5 | saying, have great confidence. |
| 1:56.0 | God is always our father even when he sends us trials. |
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