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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 470.

One evening, as I looked up from my cell to the sky and saw the beautiful star-strewn

firmament and the moon, an inconceivable fire of love for my creator, welled up within my soul,

and, unable to hear the yearning for him that arose within my soul, I fell on my face,

humbling myself in the dust. I glorified him for all his works,

and when my heart could no longer bear what was going on within me,

I wept aloud.

Then my guardian angel touched me and spoke to me these words.

The Lord orders me to tell you to rise from the ground.

I did so immediately, but felt no consolation in my

soul. The yearning for God grew even stronger in me. One day when I was at adoration, and my spirit

seemed to be dying for him, and I could no longer hold back my tears. I saw a spirit

of great beauty who spoke these words to me. Don't cry, says the Lord. After a moment I asked,

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