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 Marian 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 Kavalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 853. In the evening, a great longing took possession of my soul. I took the

pamphlet with the image of the merciful Jesus on it and pressed it to my heart, and the following

words burst forth from my soul.

Jesus, eternal love, I live for you, I die for you, and I want to be united with you.

Suddenly I saw the Lord in his inexpressible beauty, he looked at me graciously and said,

My daughter, I too came down from heaven out of love for you.

I lived for you.

I died for you.

And I created the heavens for you.

And Jesus pressed me to his heart and said to me, very soon now, be at peace,

my daughter. When I was alone, my soul was set a fire with the desire to suffer until the moment

when the Lord would say, enough. And even if I were to live for thousands of years,

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