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Day 171 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 787-793. Sister Faustina is on a one day retreat and she’s just kind of writing down different musings that come to her mind. I take this time to look at myself and see how well I’m doing with the areas she wants to get better in: Listening better,…
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Day 170 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Another ten days down! Good job, Catholic Pilgrims! Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 782-786. As we know, Sister Faustina talks a lot about suffering for God and how it is a way to show love. This was an emotional reading today because it caused me to reflect on the suffering I’ve had being…
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Day 169 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 777-781. Heaven is about worship of the Almighty for eternity. It is the full union with God and basking in all happiness and glory. There is a tendency, though, of thinking of Heaven as only a place where we will be reunited with our loved ones. While this…
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Day 168 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 771-776. What if you could gain a greater capacity for happiness and knowledge in Heaven? What if that meant you needed to do the hard work to have a relationship with God here on Earth? Would you do all that you could to be rewarded with a greater…
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Day 167 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 768-770. Have you found a kindred spirit in Christ? Sister Faustina talks today about how God gives grace to kindred spirits that are united to God. They easily recognize each other. I talk about how connected I felt to other Catholics when I was at the World Meeting…
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Day 166 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Warning: Today’s reflection is not appropriate for young ears. Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 764-767. Christ tells Sister Faustina to “defend children from evil.” As you know, I go with what falls on my heart for my reflections. Today, Christ’s comment placed on my heart to discuss my experiences of working with…
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Day 165 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 760-763. We will focus on one line from today’s readings. A priest tells Sister Faustina not to worry about human opinion when it comes to doing God’s Will. This is so hard for all of us. It is hard to deal with people’s forceful and negative comments about…
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Day 164 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 756-759. Sister Faustina has a vision today of the Upper Room and she sees the institution of the Blessed Sacrament. I describe my experience of being in the Upper Room when I was on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. The Upper Room was utterly different than what I…
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Day 163 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 750-755. We have to work with God’s grace. If God asks us to do something we must do it and realize that God will do His part to help us fulfill our mission. He will give us graces to help us. Sometimes we will have to be patient…
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Day 162 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 745-749. Are we willing to accept ridicule, persecutions, and hatred for Christ? Or, do we try to make Christianity fit the popular culture so as to make it easy for us to live it out, not angering enemies of the Catholic Church. If the popular culture applauds your…
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Day 161 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 742-744. Jesus is going to talk about works today, so we are going to talk about works today. Faith and works are not in conflict with each other. In fact, works arise naturally out of faith. If you love and believe in Christ then you desire to show…
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Day 160 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Congrats!  Another ten days down. We are moving right along. Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 736-741. Let today be a call to evangelization. Sister Faustina visits Hell and her descriptions are horrific. We must live our Catholic Faith with joy and passion so that those who don’t believe might see a difference in…
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Day 159 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 731-735. In our lives today, entertainment is a top priority. The entertainment mentality has pervaded our faith lives. Too many look to sit back and be entertained by religion. If not, well, then it is time to move on till we find something more entertaining. Sister Faustina shows…
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Day 158 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 725-730. Who is the number voice that guides your life? Is it your spouse? Your best friend? Your favorite politician? Is it your own voice? Sister Faustina shares how Christ’s voice is the only voice she wants to hear. He is her number one. There are many, many…
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Day 157 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 720-724. Sister Faustina shares that it can be hard to live in a community. She ain’t kidding! No matter what community we are in, people can be difficult. We ourselves are difficult. It’s so important for us to learn to be good community members whether that be at…
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Day 156 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 714-719. Christ seems to say some really harsh words to Sister Faustina. He tells her that she needs to be aware of what she truly is. It is so important that we are truthful with ourselves about our sins and about how those sins have made us do…
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Day 155 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 709-713. Apologizes for the mispronunciation of ciborium by me today in the readings and for the scratchy sound at the very end. Sister Faustina realizes that she may not see the full fruits of her labors with regards to the Divine Mercy message. She knows that her life…
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Day 154 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 702-708. Sister Faustina shares how much she loves to be close to God. She wants to talk to Him, learn from Him, share her life with Him. The good news is that God wants us to be close to Him. He is not a distant, unapproachable God. He…
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Day 153 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 697-701. So often, we look to Christ as a last resort to solve our problems. This is true for individuals, communities, and countries. Too often we look to politicians, the media, and progressive movements to fix problems. If we don’t seek Christ’s guidance in any problem we try…
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Day 152 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 692-696. Sister Faustina talks about the sufferings of death today. I would wager that most of us fear that sufferings of death and would just like to go peacefully in our sleep when we are 95. But, the reality is that this probably won’t happen to most of…
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Day 151 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 686-691. Do we show up in the hard? Do we show people we love them by showing up even when we are tired or even if we really don’t want to do something at the moment? Sister Faustina is very tired and, yet, she still goes to give…
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Day 150 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 680-685. Sister Faustina is asking for the intercession of Jesuit Saints. I thought today would be a great day to talk about the Jesuits and how they came about. My daughter recently learned about St. Ignatius and how he came to found the Jesuits. What I love about…
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Day 149 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 675-679. Sister Faustina mentions todays that the practicing the virtues is important to living out God’s Will. So, I thought today would be a good day to talk about the Cardinal Virtues. We know that the virtues are good to practice, but I’m not sure we think about…
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Day 148 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 669-674. Sister Faustina is being tormented by Satan and she just wants to run into the garden to cry aloud. She is even tempted to miss Holy Communion because of temptations. Christ appears and asks her a very pointed question. It’s a question that Christ will ask to…
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Day 147 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 664-668. Sister Faustina talks a lot about doing God’s Will in our readings today. What impresses me is how willing she is to do God’s Will even it means she is hidden and meek. She isn’t worried about being known or famous. My pride causes me to struggle…
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Day 146 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 658-663. How do we know if we are truly being guided by the Holy Spirit? Well, there are safeguards we need to put into place to check and make sure any inspirations are truly from God. St. Faustina shows us those safeguards: Talking with a spiritual director, speaking…
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Day 145 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 653-657. Sister Faustina talks about having contrition for her sins in her writings today. It is so important that we have true contrition for our sins. There is imperfect contrition and perfect contrition. We will discuss the differences today and, also, how to have contrition for our sins.…
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Day 144 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 646-652. We get the continuation of the saga that happened in yesterday’s readings. Today, everyone has changed. The confessor is less severe. Satan doesn’t show up. Christ doesn’t have too much to say and St. Faustina has renewed strength and courage. I think what we are seeing is…
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Day 143 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 643-645. The readings today are very curious. Her new confessor tells her to give all these inspirations up, they are all an illusions. And curiously, she is relieved to get this message. However, she falls into darkness. Later, Christ talks with her and seems completely fine with how…
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Day 142 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 639-642. Sister Faustina has been going through Lent. Now she is thinking about Palm Sunday. I share my experience of walking the Palm Sunday path when I was in the Holy Land. Whenever I read the Palm Sunday narrative, it reminds me of the fickleness of the human…
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Day 141 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 634-638. Sister Faustina has a conversation with Mary in our readings today. Mary implores Sister Faustina to get the message of mercy out so that souls can receive it before the Second Coming of Christ. At the Second Coming, Christ will be the Just Judge. We prepare for…
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Day 140 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 629-633. As Sister Faustina is getting ready to depart, another sister comes and apologizes to her for being so difficult. Sister Faustina had been patient with this other sister and, in the end, it had brought about good change. Though it can be incredibly difficult to be patient…
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Day 139 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 624-628. Sister Faustina has a interaction with an elderly sister who was struggling to believe that she has been forgiven by God. Sister Faustina promises to pray for her and ask Christ if she has been forgiven. Sometimes, we struggle with doubts about whether God really loves us…
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Day 138 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 617-623. Sister Faustina writes about how our prayers for specific souls in purgatory may not get applied to who we attend. God will apply our prayers to those that need them. I did an Ancestry DNA kit a few years back and I realized that I have a…
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Day 137 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 615-616. Sister Faustina gives a lot of thoughts on following God’s Will versus our own will. There are times when we know, deep in our bones, what God wants us to do. Many times, we just ignore and pretend not to know because we realize that following God’s…
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Day 136 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 610-614. Sister Faustina fears that she has possibly offended Christ. Because she is unsure, she decides to stay away from Communion until she can later get to Confession. While her desire to be free of sin is admirable, it is not good that she stays away from Communion.…
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Day 135 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 605-609. We hear about how Sister Faustina has a rough morning. She’s sleepy, she struggles to stay focused in prayer and meditation. She talks about how each day she deals with battles in the morning and battles at the end. This is important to read because it helps…
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Day 134 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 601-604. Today is the first day where I truly was stumped by something Sister Faustina wrote. It caused me to raise an eyebrow, but it’s not the first time a saint has talked about this certain issue. St. Paul does in Colossians. So, I had to do a…
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Day 133 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 596-600. Sister Faustina asks Christ to take on the sufferings of her confessor. Christ mostly grants her prayer and she immediately starts feeling struggles and aversions. I ask the question, “Are we willing to suffer for others?” I share a story of when I was asked to suffer…
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Day 132 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 593-595. What makes a truly happy soul? Do whatever makes you happy? Do whatever it takes to get yours? Nah. Sister Faustina tells us that a truly happy soul must be humble. I have some ideas, too, of what makes us truly happy. …
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Day 131 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 587-592. Love conquers fear. When we love God and get to know Him better through reading Scripture and praying, we start to understand His heart all the more. Knowing Him better helps us to not fear God as just a God of punishment, but as a God of…
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Day 130 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 580-586. Christ tells Sister Faustina that those with a lukewarm faith break His heart. It even breaks His heart more than those who sin who don’t believe in Him. The fact of the matter is, is that a lukewarm faith does absolutely nothing for us. Here’s the thing,…
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Day 129 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 574-579. Eternity with God is full of joy and glory. It will be better than we can even comprehend. Sadly, there are many that don’t believe in eternity and this non-belief causes them to live their lives in a very different way than Christians. Sister Faustina expresses gratitude…
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Day 128 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 570-573. Sister Faustina’s greatest fear is to offend God. This is exactly right. Too often we worry about offending other people rather than worrying about offending God. To be sure, we shouldn’t walk around trying to offend people through hateful talk or nasty names. However, we cannot worry…
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Day 127 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 568-569. Sister Faustina defines how she wants the Superior to relate to the sisters. It is a fantastic look at true leadership. What is important to understand is that not everyone on earth has the gift of leadership. But, if you do, true leadership is about serving as…
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Day 126 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 565-567. Sister Faustina writes today about the respect she wants the sisters to give their Superior. So, we are going to talk about worship, praise, respect, and honor. Catholics get accused pretty frequently of giving too much honor and respect to the Pope, the Saints, and Mary. People…
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Day 125 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 559-564. Sister Faustina has a vision of the building that is to house her new convent. The problem is that it’s a run-down, crumbling building. She’s a little disappointed. I share what it’s like to visit the ruins of once-glorious Catholic Churches here in Turkey. Surprisingly, it doesn’t…
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Day 124 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 554-558. This is the last day of looking at how Sister Faustina wants the new Congregation to function. I compare and contrast the Religious life with the life of a lay person. There are some things Religious do that lay people shouldn’t do, or shouldn’t do, at least,…
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Day 123 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 549-553. We are continuing on today with reading about how Sister Faustina’s new Congregation will operate. Don’t let this be dry readings to you. There are a lot of good things to reflect upon in these words. I want to focus on what she has to say about…
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Day 122 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 542-548. Sister Faustina is laying out how the new Congregation will work. We made be tempted to see these readings as not really pertaining to our lives. I think, though, that it is important to understand and see exactly what the Religious give up for Christ. If we…
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Day 121 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Milestone Day! We are a third of the way through the year! Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 536-541. Sister Faustina is envisioning what the new Congregation will look like. Our Religious do so much good in the world and I share a story of an atheist that ended up converting to Catholicism. One…
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Day 120 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 530-535. The podcast is a little longer today because we will be saying a prayer for our priests at the end. Christ tells Sister Faustina to pray for the souls of priests and I thought it would be a good idea for us to pray for them, as…
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Day 119 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 525-529. The life of a saint is filled with ups and downs, highs and lows. There are moments of great feelings of joy; there are moments of dryness. If we are expecting our faith life to be full of nothing but highs, we will be disappointed and tempted…
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Day 118 with St. Faustina’s Diary
We start Notebook Two today! Today’s readings are from Notebook 2, numbers 522-524. It will be a short reading today. Notebook Two starts with a beautiful short poem and I will read it and then let you reflect on its message of mercy. It’s a great way to start this next chapter. …
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Day 117 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Congratulations! We made it to the end of Notebook One! Whoop, whoop! Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 512-521. We complete Notebook one and this is a big milestone for all of us. After our readings today we will summarize our journey thus far with Sister Faustina. We’ve been through so much with her…
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Day 116 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 506-511. All the writings today have to do with patience. Sister Faustina’s spiritual director is encouraging her to be patient with regards to discerning whether she should start a new Congregation. Sister Faustina writes about how she is going to arm herself with patience. I struggle mightily to…
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Day 115 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 498-505. Sister Faustina is always trying to find ways to be more obedient to God. She’s always looking for some way to surrender more. That made me wonder about my life. What would it look like if I tried to be more obedient and to surrender more? I…
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Day 114 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 492-497. Sister Faustina is really struggling with her upcoming Confession. She has all kinds of doubts and thoughts about why she shouldn’t have to follow God’s Will for her life. Her Confession doesn’t go very well. I think we can all relate to this. There are so many…
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Day 113 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 489-491. Sister Faustina’s has frequent visits from her Guardian Angel. He seems to be present in order to give her strength. I don’t think we call on our Guardian Angels enough. They are such wonderful helps from God. I share my story of when I believe I met…
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Day 112 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 485-488. Should we care about what other people say about us? Sister Faustina says that she has given up caring about what other people say about her. There is a fine line to walk here. Of course, we should always be open to constructive criticism from others. However,…
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Day 111 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings from Notebook 1, numbers 479-484. Sister Faustina professes her love for the Catholic Church. As a former Protestant, I wish that lukewarm Catholics could fully understand what they have in the Church. It is where we receive the Sacraments, it is where we receive teachings from the Magisterium. I lived without these things…
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Day 110 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 474-478. I’m so excited for today’s readings because we hear the prayers that we pray when praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet. There are people that are against this diary and feel that it is a dangerous book. But, if you just read today’s words and prayers, it is…
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Day 109 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 471-473. Sister Faustina sees a vision of one of the angels that stand before the throne of God. She describe him as very beautiful. She attributes this beauty to the closeness this angel has with God. As humans, we spend tons of time, effort, and money working on…
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Day 108 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers  466-470. Let’s have fun talking about God’s Creation today. Sister Faustina stares out her window and looks at the heavens. The stars and moon cause her heart to burn with adoration for God. It is so good to marvel at creation and it helps us grasp at the…
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Day 107 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 456-465. The readings are a little bit longer today, but Sister Faustina is on a three-day retreat and I wanted to keep a flow of thought. The speaker speaks about God’s goodness–one of His greatest attributes. Many people–believers and non-believers–struggle with fully believing in God’s goodness. Lots of…
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Day 106 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 450-455. Till our last breath, our lives have purpose and meaning. No matter our age, no matter our place in life, we can fight the good fight against evil and work to save souls. When I was in college, I cleaned house for a retired couple that had…
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Day 105 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 445-449. One line from Christ in today’s readings gets me fired up. When we look around at the present state of things, there is a real desire to just hunker down and keep our Catholic Faith to ourselves. While things may look bleak, we were made for times…
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Day 104 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 440-444. Sister Faustina’s confessor talks to her about the three degrees of accomplishing God’s Will. The first degree is following rules and statues of our faith. The second one is listening to internal inspirations and finding a way to heed the call. I share a story of a…
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Day 103 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 435-439. Does Sister Faustina’s writings seem heavy to you? I read an article that said Sister Faustina’s Diary may not be good for people that struggle with scrupulosity. Sister Faustina does have a tendency to second guess herself and to feel that she is just the worst…
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Day 102 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 429-434. I think fear is one of the most crippling things plaguing our world today. Everyone is afraid of something and that fear has caused us to draw in on ourselves. I’m not immune. Sister Faustina writes about how she is frightened by the greatness of what God…
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Day 101 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 424-428. Sister Faustina has a vision of a soul that was in front of the judgment seat of God. Many wounded souls were coming to bear witness to how they were treated by the newly judged soul. It wasn’t a pretty sight. There are so many wounded souls…
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Day 100 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 420-423. 100 DAYS! Congratulations on listening in for 100 days. I hope you all understand that it is no coincidence that we are reading this diary together during in this time. There is so much angst in the world and the way we are going about handling it…
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Day 99 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 413-419. The image is finally up! This is causing the demons much torment because of all the souls that are being flooded with mercy. Satan does not want the message of mercy to be known. He wants us to feel sunk in sin and feel left to be…
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The Library at Ephesus
Travel with me, Catholic Pilgrims, to Ephesus. This ancient city was a major player to our Christian faith. St. Paul, St. John the Apostle, Our Mother Mary, and St. Polycarp all spent time here working to spread the Good News. While the ancient city is abandoned, the ruins are still pretty magnificent. Ephesus once boasted…
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Day 98 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 411-412. The closer you get to God, the harder Satan will try. I don’t know about you but I feel I would be hysterical if Satan were openly attacking me as he sometimes does Sister Faustina. Yet, she handles it with great confidence in God. She prays, she…
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Day 97 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 405-410. The Sorrowful Mysteries are my favorite set of mysteries to pray. I know that might sound weird, but those mysteries ground me in Christ’s love. Sister Faustina is reflecting on the Passion of our Lord. It is good for us to be reminded of what He endured…
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Day 96 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 401-404. Sister Faustina is still at home with her family and she is being inundated with visitors. She loves that she gets to talk so much about God, but she also is a little overwhelmed by it all. She’s used to silence and solitude in the convent. She…
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Day 95 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 395-400. We get a break today from convent life. Sister Faustina is going home to spend some time with her dying mother. While on the train, she has a deep conversation with a woman. This reminded me about how important it is to be aware of people around…
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Day 94 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 387-394. What is love? Is it good feelings? Is it romantic words spoken and words of flattery? No, love is an act of the will. It is shown in deeds. Real love shows up when we do acts even if they are hard, even if we don’t feel like…
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Day 93 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 383-386. We have to talk about a phrase written down in Sister Faustina’s writings–the blackest ungratefulness. I detail my recent trip to the middle of Turkey to see the cave churches of the first Christians. They were so grateful to Christ that they were willing to hold Mass…
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Day 92 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 378-382. I think it is common for us as humans to focus more heavily on Christ as Judge instead of Christ’s Mercy. Sister Faustina writes, “He desires everyone to know this before He comes again as Judge. He wants souls to come to know Him first as King…
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Day 91 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 374-377. As I read through today’s writings, I realized that for someone who is far from God, her reflections would cause disgust. Who is this woman that wants to deny her own will, her own judgment, her own tongue? It is a sure fact, though, that our judgment…
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Day 90 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 367-373. Congrats on following along for 3 months! Christ reveals today in Sister’s writings how much He desires to pour out more love, more mercy, more goodness on souls, but they just don’t trust Him enough or come to Him enough. God wants to rain down mercy, grace,…
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Day 89 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 362-366. Sister Faustina gets called out for being self-willful. What she wants to do seem so small to some of the disobedience that we see out in the world today. However, Christ tells her that we have to be obedient in small things. This will help us to…
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Day 88 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 358-361. Sister Faustina writes about a special practice that her convent does at the beginning of each new year. They pick out a patron saint to carry with them through the year. I LOVE this idea. What a great practice to add into our faith lives. Think how…
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Day 87 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 356-358. Our readings today are different than any other day. We will be praying a litany to the Blessed Host. I would invite you to think of any intentions you have before starting this prayer. This is a beautiful, short litany for poor sinners and it will be…
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Day 86 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 351-355. We hear today about living a life of faith. We must live our faith life in even small things. It is very common for Christians to compartmentalize our faith life: We live our faith on Sundays for an hour, the rest of the time we fully live…
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Day 85 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 346-350. Sister Faustina asks Christ for a share in His suffering that He endured with the Crown of Thorns. She wakes up and she can feel a thorn piercing the left side of her head. This reading reminded me of when I saw the thorn tree on the…
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Day 84 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 342-345. Sister Faustina thanks God today for the many sufferings in her life. Her list is actually incredible and would baffle so many in the world today. “She’s thanking God for being humiliated, treated rudely, and having spiritual dryness?” Too often we don’t understand how suffering shows true…
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Day 83 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 336-341. Sister Faustina’s confessor encourages her see if she has any attachments to things or any other creatures. This is a great practice for all of us. We ALL have attachments to things and we must be careful not to let our attachments turn into idols. We have…
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Day 82 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 331-335. Â In our readings today, we get a lot of talk about being childlike in our faith. Many of us take “childlike” to mean immature and silly. But, Christ means that we should come to Him in wonder, awe, and simplicity. Â As adults, we sometimes complicate our…
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Day 81 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 325-330. One of the best prayers we can say when we need a quick, effective prayer is, “Jesus, I trust in you.” We must remember,  though, that God may not answer our prayer in the way that we think best. We must trust that God knows what He…
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Day 80 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 318-324. Sister Faustina is attacked by demons at two different points in her writings today and her response to them is pretty awesome. Sister Faustina also prays deeply for souls that don’t know God’s love and mercy. Why don’t more souls let God love them? There can be…
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Day 79 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 312-317. Sister Faustina is quite upset with how Christ looks in the painting of the Divine Mercy image. She doesn’t feel it captures Christ’s beauty well enough. Have you ever thought about what Christ looks like? I do all the time. In fact, when it comes to images…
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Day 78 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 305-311. God’s mercy is so boundless and generous. We often forget that and we often don’t trust in God’s mercy. Sister Faustina writes about God’s Mercy over and over and Christ reminds us over and over. If only we understood how much God wants to pour mercy over…
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Day 77 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 302-304. Sister Faustina writes about how she desires to save souls, be a missionary, a preacher, and a martyr. Basically, she wishes she had loads of gifts so that she can reach many souls. Her true gifts are the gifts to endure suffering for others and she’s a…
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Day 76 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 294-301. We get some great words from Christ in today’s readings. We hear about what the two rays mean in the painting of the Divine Mercy. Reading through Sister Faustina’s writings today, I was struck by all the ways we can love Christ more: Trusting in Him, staying…
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Day 75 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 289-293. How often do you think of Heaven and eternity? What kind of person are you? One that lives in the past? Only lives for the present moment? Or pines away for the future? Sister Faustina tells us that she gets fearful of eternity and its mysteries. I…
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Day 74 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 285-288. Sister Faustina states that she will never leave the battlefield. What she is saying is that she will always fight against sin and evil. We, too, must be willing to enter into spiritual warfare. We can’t just allow anything and we must be willing to say no…
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Day 73 with St. Faustina’s Diary
Today’s readings are from Notebook 1, numbers 279-284. Christ’s words today can cause us to feel uncomfortable. He talks about suffering and how much it can show that we love Him. This can be hard for us to hear, especially in a world that sees suffering as pointless and something to be utterly avoided. But,…
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