Journeying With The Saints

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1774-1778. At the end of our readings today, Sister Faustina is going to declare her resolution. It's one we've heard before: To unite herself to Christ-Mercy. Christ is Mercy and He is love. We all need to unite ourselves to His Mercy everyday, over and over again. I hope that this diary has taught us this.    

This week, we are reading from the 51st number from "Way to Inner Peace." This will be our last reading from the "You" section; next week we start the final section which is titled, "Faith." Our readings this week are probably the hardest so far, at least I think so. Don't let it scare you off because we are going to walk our way through it. Once you understand what he's saying, it's really profou...

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1767-1773. We are on the third day of this mini-retreat Christ has asked Sister Faustina to do with Him. He's going to talk a lot about love of neighbors; about how we should pray for them and sacrifice them. This took me down memory lane and I started thinking of all the neighbors I've had in my life. They really do make up the fabric of our lives and...

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1758-1766. There's so much packed in today's readings that I hardly know where to start. So, I narrowed it down to just one sentence. Christ is going to talk about feelings versus the will. I think this is wildly important to talk about in our day and age.   

Today's readings are from Notebook 6, numbers 1752-1757. If you remember, a couple days back, Christ asked Sister Faustina to enter into a personal retreat with Him. We are starting that three-day retreat today. Christ is going to give her the things He wants her to meditate on. This will be the first day and the meditation is all about not being afraid. This is a message we frequently get in Scri...

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, a...

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 pra...

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 impor...

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 Faus...

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 so...

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 rea...

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...

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 encoura...

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...

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 F...

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...

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 chara...

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 reall...

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 r...

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.