Journeying With The Saints

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1153-1159

Sister Faustina has a vision of her new Congregation and Christ reveals to her how He wants her to spread mercy. There are three main ways—words of mercy, prayers for mercy, and deeds of mercy. I, also, share how difficult it has been to get this podcast up and running. The visual is pretty ridiculous but full of God's grace. Whew!

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1148-1152.

These readings are some of my favorite from St. Faustina. They really speak to me and are totally relatable. We are talking about emotions today and how they threaten to overwhelm us sometimes. They can definitely get the better of us and Sister Faustina gives us the solution--pray for actual graces.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1142-1147.

When non-believers focus on God, they only focus on what they perceive to be "angry" Old Testament God. They never focus on God's mercy or love. Christ speaks beautiful words about His infinite mercy and it's a message that so many need to hear. Christ wants us to lead with a message of mercy.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1133-1141.

We are celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi with Sister Faustina today. It's so important that we understand that Christ's Body is fully given to us in the Holy Eucharist. Everything in the Old Testament must be greater and utterly fulfilled in the New. Holy Communion is not symbolic--it is the true Body of Christ. It's a miraculous way to be united to our Savior.

This week we are reading the 34th number from "Way to Inner Peace." We will be discussing age. I find it a very interesting topic because no matter what age you are, everybody seems a little worried about growing older. What will our lives look like at 90? I think most people kind of think about it on the periphery of their lives but don't really think hard about it. Because we don't really think about we tend to land in old age and have no idea what to do or how to live.

Three key points: Tradition, memory, and wisdom.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1127-1132.

Sister Faustina sees the devil lurking around her convent. When she demands that he tell her what he is doing, he says he is looking for idle and lazy souls. God gives us the gift of life and it is an absolute shame when we squander the time He gives us by being idle and wasting our days with useless entertainment. Sister Faustina tells us that it is the tired and toiled souls that will rejoice.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1121-1126.

Have you ever looked at a couple and seen them gushing in love and staring into each other's eyes? And then you look at yourself and your significant other and you don't see that same level of gushing love? Does it make you feel like maybe you don't love your significant other enough? Sister Faustina has the ability to be in ecstasy and be thoroughly connected to God. Many of us don't experience this and so we may wonder if we are doing something wrong.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1115-1120.

So what happens when you are trying to do God's Will but it does not feel good? What is brings you a lot of suffering and torment? Does that mean you are on the wrong track? Sister Faustina experiences just this issue. We have seen her striving as hard as she can to live out God's Will, but it doesn't always feel good to her. So, does this mean she is on the wrong path?

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1100-1114.

There's nothing too earthly-shattering today in our readings. But, we will be talking about Mary, as Sister Faustina talks about her in the last part of our readings. You can never talk enough about our Mother Mary and I thought we would go into some of the doctrines that deal with her.

Today's readings are from Notebook 3, numbers 1106-1109.

We all understand the concept of "if you love someone set them free and if they come back to you they really love you." We understand that in order for someone to truly love, they have to be free to make the choice to be with us. However, when it comes to God, we have a very hard time understanding the free will concept. People actually think God is mean for not creating us in such a way that we never choose evil. But, because God loves us, He gave us free will.