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 944. There are moments when I mistrust myself, when I feel my own weakness

and wretchedness in the most profound depths of my own being, and I have noticed that I can endure such moments

only by trusting in the infinite mercy of God.

Patience, prayer, and silence. These are what gives strength to the soul.

There are moments when one should be silent, and when it would be inappropriate to talk with creatures.

These are the moments when one is dissatisfied with oneself and when the soul feels as weak as a little child.

Then the soul clings to God with all its might.

At such times I live solely by faith, and when I feel strengthened by God's grace,

then I am more courageous in speaking and communicating with my neighbors.

In the evening, the Lord said to me, my child, rest on my heart. I see that you have worked hard in my

vineyard. And my soul was flooded with divine joy. February 12, 1937. Today, the presence of God is

piercing me through and through, like a ray from the sun.

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