New Year Day 258: Diary Entries 1443-1449

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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"My soul was languishing with joy. But toward the end of the Mass, I felt so weak that I had to leave the chapel and go to my cell," 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. Together, let's consecrate our
0:22.6	lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception.
0:27.6	Order my book, Shining in Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaculate Conception,
0:32.1	in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you.
0:39.8	Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
0:44.7	Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of
0:49.1	St. Maria Fastina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary
0:55.8	entry number 1443. My soul was languishing with joy, but toward the end of the mass,
1:04.8	I felt so weak that I had to leave the chapel and go to my cell, as I felt unable to take part in the community tea.
1:13.7	But my joy throughout the whole Christmas season was immense, because my soul was unceasingly
1:21.0	united with the Lord. I have come to know that every soul would like to have divine comforts, but is by no means willing
1:30.0	to forsake human comforts, whereas these two things cannot be reconciled. During this Christmas
1:38.4	season, I have sensed that certain souls have been praying for me. I rejoice that such spiritual union and knowledge exist already here on earth.
1:50.0	O my Jesus, praise be to you for all this.
1:55.0	In the greatest torments of souls, I am always alone. But in the greatest torments of soul, I am always alone.
2:06.9	But no, not alone, for I am with you, Jesus. But here I am speaking about other people.
2:15.1	None of them understands my heart, but this does not surprise me anymore,
2:20.2	whereas I used to be surprised when my intentions were condemned and wrongly interpreted.
2:26.4	No, this does not surprise me now at all. People do not know how to perceive the soul. They see the body,
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