Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception.

Follow along with my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaclet

Conception, live on Facebook at the Marion Helpers page, Instagram at the Divine Mercy,

and at divine mercyplus.org at 9 a.m. Eastern Time every morning. Together, let's consecrate our

lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception.

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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of

St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 449. August 5, 1935, the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy. I prepared for this feast

with greater zeal than in previous years.

On the morning of the feast itself, I experienced an inner struggle

at the thought that I must leave this congregation which enjoys such special protection from Mary.

This struggle lasted through the meditation and through the First Mass as well. During the second Mass,

I turned to our Holy Mother, telling her that it was difficult for me to separate myself from

this congregation, which is under your special protection, O Mary. Then I saw the Blessed Virgin,

unspeakably beautiful. She came down from the altar to my kneeler, held me close to herself, and said to me,

I am mother to you all, thanks to the unfathomable mercy of God.

Most pleasing to me is that soul which faithfully carries out the will of God.

She gave me to understand that I had faithfully

fulfilled the will of God and had thus found favor in his eyes. Be courageous. Do not fear

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