New Year Day 362: Diary Appendix 39 - Letter from December 20, 1937

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

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Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Sr. Justyna, dated December 20, 1937. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic. To order a copy of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, visit ShopMercy.org.

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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
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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.
0:44.3	Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of
0:48.7	St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to her friend, Sister Eustina Goelphit, from December of
0:58.5	1937.
1:01.3	Jesus, Marian Joseph.
1:03.9	Dear Sister Eustina, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and the Lord's abundant graces.
1:13.2	May the divine infant grant you whatever you most desire. What a great delight it is to commune with the divine infant. During
1:21.2	midnight Mass we shall meet at Jesus' crib. Thank you for your letter, dear sister. It brought me much joy. I did not reply
1:30.5	to it at once because it was already Advent, but I have been remembering you, sister, in my prayers
1:36.4	before the Lord. I see that we have similar duties, since both you and I are at the gate. But may be God's holy will, but may God's
1:48.1	holy will be done in everything. My health is very weak, but I can still be at the gate,
1:55.5	and I continue to take part in all community life. Yet I sense the nearness of being united with God eternally.
2:04.8	May God be blessed for everything. His holy will is my delight. Please pray for me that I may
2:13.0	faithfully cooperate with God's grace, for of himself, man is but misery itself, only capable of
2:22.2	wasting even the greatest divine graces. Have you heard, Sister, what a beautiful death
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