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

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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 Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 890. Love is a mystery that transforms everything it touches

into things beautiful and pleasing to God. The love of God makes a soul free. She is like a queen. She knows no slavish

compulsion. She sets about everything with great freedom of soul, because the love which dwells in her

incites her to action. Everything that surrounds her makes her know that only God himself

is worthy of her love. A soul in love with God and immersed in him approaches her duties with the

same dispositions as she does Holy Communion and carries out the simplest tasks with great care under the

loving gaze of God. She is not troubled if, after some time, something turns out to be less

successful. She remains calm, because at the time of the action, she had done what was in her power.

When it happens that the living presence of God which she enjoys most constantly leaves her,

she then tries to continue living in lively faith.

Her soul understands that there are periods of rest and periods of battle. Through her will,

she is always with God. Her soul, like a knight, is well trained in battle. From afar,

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