This week Susan Tassone returns to the show. We discuss her fantastic new book for Lent, Praying with Jesus and Faustina during Lent and in Times of Suffering. As the title suggests this book is not just a Lent book. It’s a devotional you will return to often when suffering strikes. Get your copy here.


From the publisher Sophia Institute Press

St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) immersed herself in a vision of Christ s Passion that became a predominant theme in her famed Diary. In Praying with Jesus and Faustina During Lent and in Times of Suffering, award winning and best-selling author Susan Tassone presents the Diary’s words of Christ and St. Faustina on his sorrowful Passion. The book will engage you in Jesus horrific sufferings, giving you grace, light and strength to bear your own sufferings.

The book opens with daily Lenten meditations featuring the words of Jesus and St. Faustina on the Passion. Each day also includes both special reflections for times of suffering and a prayer. In the following chapters, St. Faustina will lead you through heartfelt prayers on the Way of the Cross, Christ’s wounds, and on the Blessed Mother’s sorrows. Susan also includes chapters on unique litanies, the Divine Mercy devotion, and confession.

In Praying with Jesus and Faustina During Lent and in Times of Suffering, you will learn to more deeply:

    • Meditate with Jesus and St. Faustina daily in Lent and in suffering
    • Participate in St. Faustina’s vision of Christ’s passion
    • Find comfort and strength from the Crucified Christ
    • Pray the Stations of the Cross using the words of Jesus and St. Faustina
    • Join your sufferings to Christ’s sorrowful passion
    • Find refuge, consolation and mercy in Christ’s wounds
    • Unite your sorrows with the sufferings that afflicted of Our Lady’s heart
    • Pray a vast variety of litanies for the troubled times of your life.
    • Come to appreciate the beauty and value of confession from the words of Jesus and St. Faustina

And much more!

Bio

Susan Tassone has long been a passionate champion for the holy souls in purgatory and is recognized as leading a worldwide “purgatory movement.”

The award-winning author of eleven best-sellers, including St. Faustina Prayer Book for Adoration, Susan makes speaking appearances throughout the country. Over a dozen cardinals and bishops worldwide have endorsed her works. She’s a frequent and popular guest on national radio and television programs as well as social media. In 2013, she was featured in the groundbreaking documentary Purgatory: The Forgotten Church and was on the cover of Catholic Digest magazine in 2017.

She also continues to work tirelessly to raise donations for Masses for the holy souls.

Susan holds a master’s degree in religious education from Loyola University Chicago and had the honor and privilege of being granted two private audiences with St. John Paul II, who bestowed a special blessing on her and her ministry for the holy souls. Learn more at: susantassone.com.

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