Discovering the Diary

The promises Jesus offers the dying and the loved ones of the dying are some of the most powerful statements in all of St. Faustina's Diary. 

By Marc Massery

If you’re living the Gospel, chances are some of your greatest adversaries will be close friends and family, likely even fellow Christians. 

Take St. Faustina, for example. Her family was so against her vocation that she had to run away to the convent in order to fulfill God’s will. Later, she suffered much at the hands of fellow religious sisters. She wrote: 

Surrendering to God doesn't mean pretending everything is OK. In this article, St. Faustina and King David teach us true surrender. 

If you want to do the bare minimum that Catholics are called to, you need to do some form of penance on Fridays.