New Year Day 248: Diary Entries 1372-1380

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

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"My Jesus, You know that from my earliest years I have wanted to become a great saint," St. Faustina writes. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic.

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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.
0:39.8	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
0:48.9	St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with
0:55.1	diary entry number 1372. My Jesus, you know that from my earliest years I have wanted to
1:06.0	become a great saint. That is to say, I have wanted to love you with a love so great that there would be no soul who has hitherto loved you so.
1:16.9	At first, these desires of mine were kept secret, and only Jesus knew of them.
1:23.9	But today, I cannot contain them within my heart. I would like to cry out to the whole world.
1:30.3	Love God because He is good and great is His mercy.
1:37.3	O humdrum days, filled with darkness, I look upon you with a solemn and festive eye. How great and solemn is the time
1:47.9	that gives us the chance to gather merits for eternal heaven. I understand how the saints made use of it.
1:57.3	October 30, 1937. Today, during the religious ceremonies taking place during Mass,
2:04.8	and the second day of Thanksgiving, I saw the Lord Jesus in great beauty, and he said to me,
2:11.1	My daughter, I have not released you from taking action. I answered, Lord, my hand is too feeble for such work. Yes, I know, but joined with
2:23.7	my right hand, you will accomplish everything. Nevertheless, be obedient. Be obedient to the
2:30.8	confessors. I will give them light on how to direct you.
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