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

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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 Marriott Fathers 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 611.

O my Jesus, I implore you by the goodness of your most sweetheart. Let your anger diminish

and show us your mercy. May your wounds be our shield against your Father's justice.

I have come to know you, O God, as the source of mercy that vivifies and nourishes every soul.

O how great is the mercy of the Lord! It surpasses all his other qualities. Mercy is the greatest attribute of God.

Everything that surrounds me speaks to me of this. Mercy is the life of souls. His compassion

is inexhaustible. O Lord, look on us and deal with us according to your countless mercies,

according to your great mercy. One time, I was in doubt as to whether what had happened to me

had seriously offended the Lord Jesus or not. As I could not solve this doubt, I made up my mind

not to go to communion before first going to confession, although I immediately made an act

of contrition, as it is my habit to ask for forgiveness after the slightest transgression.

During those days, when I did not receive Holy Communion, I did not

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