“Faustina, the Warrior: Winning Spiritual Warfare” Part 1 — Sr. Gaudia Skass, OLM | January 22, 2020

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Sr. Gaudia Skass, OLM speaks about the spiritual warfare in which all Christians are engaged, whether they know it or not. If our life’s goal is heaven and we want to help others to get there, then there will be a lot of fighting on the way. St. Faustina described many of her battles in her diary. She left us an amazing source of inspiration about how to win. In this talk Sr. Gaudia discusses this crucial topic of spiritual warfare for our lives in reference to the life of Jesus himself as well as Saint Faustina’s life and her writings.

Sr. Gaudia focuses in part one of her talk on the “first war zone”, so to say: fighting for others, for the salvation of souls. In the second part of her talk she emphases the “second war zone”: the battles within our own soul, the direct process of purification and sanctification. She shares the strategies on how to win all kinds of battles. Here is the link to that talk: “Faustina, the Warrior: Winning Spiri...