Journeying With The Saints

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1694-1699.

My husband and I have been doing Lectio Divina together and the other night we were reading through Luke 3:1-6. Luke is laying out all the major players of the time in order to establish the historical reality of Christ's time here on earth. We got to talking about how God uses the most unlikely people to complete His missions here. Sister Faustina is one of those people.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1689-1693.

Sister Faustina praises God as Creator today and I wanted to have some fun while talking about Creation. Creation is amazing and I'd like to share some of the things in Creation that blow my mind. I'm also going to recommend a 40-minute video for you and your family. It's a great video that shows the majesty of God's Creation.

How Great Is Our God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUGBua2AzE

This week we are reading the 49th number from "Way to Inner Peace." We only have ten more readings to go in our book. I share with you what is up for Season Three.

This week's topic, though, is on how character is made. Good and bad character is made by how we respond to the circumstances in our life. This is contrary to what most people think. Most people think that external forces form our character, but Bishop Sheen shares with us that it's our response to those to the external forces, instead.

Three Key Points: Freedom, consciousness, and ownership.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1682-1688.

We are mostly going to hear from Christ and He has so many good things to say. After the readings, I want to take one particular part and just read through it slowly. Really listen to what Christ is saying and hopefully bring these things into your prayer life. These are all things that I know we can get better in.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1678-1681.

There is a saying that says, "You only live once, so live it up!" I've actually heard someone say instead, "No, you only die once, but you live everyday." And so, everyday we should offer that day to God and do our best to follow His Will. I often tell my kids, "Don't live a life of regrets." Living a wild, reckless life isn't proof of really living. Sister Faustina shows us what it means to "really live."

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1674-1677.

Sister Faustina is getting moved to another place, a hospital, because of her sickness. We are going to go through each number we read and I'll highlight something that jumped out to me. In the last number, an angel says something that I really want to key in on.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1668-1673.

Sister Faustina is going to receive letters from other sisters in other convents and they might take you aback. There's nothing malicious in their words, it's just interesting to hear how they talk to each other. Sister Faustina takes the letters in good spirit. We are going to talk about what makes a good friend.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1661-1667.

You know what this day means, Catholic Pilgrims? It means we only have thirty days left together, so basically just a month. But, we are going to make it a great thirty days.

We've been traveling with Sister Faustina through another Holy Week. I was wondering what the Apostles did on Holy Saturday. How did they deal with the letdown?

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1655-1660.

Now that we are so close to the end of our readings with this diary, you may be thinking of recommending it to someone. If someone would have handed this diary to me after I first became Catholic, I would have gotten nothing out of it. I wouldn't have been able to grasp many of the things she talks about. So, we are going to talk about the right person to recommend this diary to.

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1652-1654.

Things will be done a little different today. We have four prayers to read. Before the start of each prayer, I'm going to give you an idea for a possible intention. You might want to stop the podcast and bring someone to mind to pray for. After reading the four prayers, we will be done for the day.