New Year Day 363: Diary Appendix 40 - Letter from 1938
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Sr. Justyna, dated 1938. 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 |
| 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, |
| 0:32.0 | in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello, I father Joe Roche of the Marian fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:44.9 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of |
| 0:49.3 | St. Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to her friend |
| 0:55.7 | sister Eustina written from Prandnik from 1938. Prantnik 1938, Jesus, Mary and Joseph. |
| 1:07.0 | Dearest Sister Eustina, thank you for your letter, Sister. |
| 1:11.6 | Forgive me for not replying sooner, but I am praying for you, sister, and prayer is more useful than writing. |
| 1:18.6 | I am convinced that you love the Lord Jesus and that you immolate yourself before him as a sacrificial offering through active love. May our offering be |
| 1:30.9 | silent and pure so that only his divine eye may take delight in it. I think you have already |
| 1:38.9 | made considerable progress in the interior life, sister. I am now already close to death and am waiting for God's |
| 1:46.7 | call with longing. However, I do not know when this will happen. I am writing these few words |
| 1:54.4 | with a trembling hand because I am consumed by fever. It seems to me that this is my last letter to you, sister. |
| 2:03.0 | Please pray very much for me because I am in need of prayer. I am still in Prantnik, but I do not know |
| 2:10.7 | for how much longer. Oh, how good it is to live one's entire life solely for God. Then too, love increases in the last hour. |
| 2:23.0 | O sister dear, let us love Jesus intensely, for love drives out fear. I am very little. I have done |
| 2:32.3 | nothing great for him, but I have always trusted in his love. |
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