Journeying With The Saints

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1745-1751.

Only 15 more days to go!

Today is much like yesterday. Sister Faustina will be praising God for very specific things. These are very beautiful praises to God. I want to just read them and sit with them. It's a little longer today as she will be praising God for three different things: For sending His Son, for the goodness of redeeming man, and for the beauty of the earth.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1741-1744.

For the next couple of days, Sister Faustina is going to be praising God for creating a certain thing. As we get close to the end of the diary, I feel we just need to hear more of her and less of me. I will read two parts today on praising God for creating angels and another part on creating mankind. I invite you to listen to them with a prayerful spirit.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1735-1740.

Confession was not one of the things that was hard for me to understand and accept when I was converting. Once I learned about it, I saw the need for it and the wisdom behind it. Sister Faustina is going to have a conversation with another Sister that is struggling with some temptations regarding Confession. We are going to discuss its importance and dispel some myths.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1729-1734.

I feel a little sad going through our readings today. You can really tell that Sister Faustina is fading away. We've been with her a long time now and she's been sick for a long time, but there's a resignation in her voice. You really get the sense that the end is near. I want to remind us all that we have found a great friend in Sister Faustina.

This week we are reading the 50th number from "Way to Inner Peace." I have learned a ton from Bishop Sheen and I've also learned a ton of vocabulary words from him. Do you know what the word palimpsests mean? I sure didn't. But, Bishop Sheen uses it and I needed to understand its meaning in order to get part of our readings this week. It relates to our topic which is about memories. I am an old soul, I love to reminisce, and I love to talk about memories. Sadly, because of technology, a lot of people don't spend time talking about memories.

Three Key Points: Richness, key, and link.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1723-1728.

We often read in the Gospels of how the Pharisees are trying to trap Jesus. They think they've come up with a clever trap and they'll catch Him saying something wrong. But, because He's God, they can't really ensnare Him. Sister Faustina is going to talk about the snares people set for her soul. This reminded me of some verses I recently read in Luke 7:31-35.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1717-1722.

20 more days to go!

I apologize if the recording sounds a bit off, I didn't have my settings correct. Sheesh!

It is common with human nature that we tend to look at other people's actions instead of looking at ourselves. We don't like to have a mirror in front of our face to see who we really are inside. If we ever get to the point where we think we don't have much work to do, well, we know we have much work to do.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1712-1716.

Because of the "Don't judge anything" movement that occurred several years ago, we've gotten to a point where we think we can't ever tell people that they are doing something sinful. It might make people feel bad and that's seen as the worst thing on earth. We think the most loving thing to do is to keep silent, tolerate sin, or even encourage sin. Sister Faustina is going to call someone out who is sinning and it's a loving act.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1706-1711.

Sister Faustina is going to be talking about the Feast of the Ascension. I thought it would be a good time to give you a geography lesson on where the Ascension took place and how it relates to Jerusalem. What were the Apostles doing after the Ascension. It's a good time to meditate on this Mystery of the Rosary.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1700-1705.

Back when I was a teenager before I turned by back on God, I was extremely lukewarm in my faith. Even after I started to come back, I was still pretty lukewarm. I didn't want to totally immerse myself in God. Once, I converted to Catholicism, I realized that a lukewarm faith means nothing. Christ is going to talk about lukewarm souls. I will discuss the Seven Church of the Book of Revelation. To lukewarm Laodicea, Christ gives a stern warning.