This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our meditation through the Rosary.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the Feast of Saint Faustina.

Notice I don't call her Faustina because about 22 years ago, I had a student from Poland named Jed Mejad Mejad

And I was teaching about Faustina,

and at the end of the year, he said, very humbly,

Dr. Shurslick, I don't want to embarrass you,

but I'm from her hometown and her name is Faustina, not Faustina.

And I said, well, why didn't you tell me in September instead of waiting till May?

But I appreciated his sharing this with me and I'm going to offer this Rosary

for the repose of his soul, for he died of brain cancer a few years ago, and we

pray for his widow and his children. But I want you to get to know St. Faustina because she is a close friend of mine.

She was born in 1905 in Poland and from the age of seven she heard the definite call of God to become a

religious sister however she writes but I was not always obedient to the call of

grace and sadly she relates, I came across no one who

would have explained these things to me. At 17, however, she begged her parents for permission to enter the convent, and she got a flat

refusal. So she turned herself over to the vain things of life, paying no attention to the

call of grace, even though she found no happiness in them.

Finally, when she was 18, she was at a dance with one of her sisters. About what happens next, she writes,

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