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 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 948. February 13, 1937. Today, during the Passion Service,

I saw Jesus being tortured and crowned with thorns and holding a reed in his hand.

Jesus was silent as the soldiers were bustling about, vying with each other in torturing him.

Jesus said nothing, but just looked at me, and in that gaze I felt his pain, so terrible

that we have not the faintest idea of how much he suffered for us

before he was crucified. My soul was filled with pain and longing. In my soul, I felt great hatred

for sin, and even the smallest infidelity on my part seems to me like a huge mountain

for which I must expiate by mortification and penance.

When I see Jesus tormented, my heart is torn to pieces, and I think, what will become of sinners

if they do not take advantage of the

passion of Jesus? In his passion, I see a whole sea of mercy. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, February 12,

1937, God's love is the flower, mercy, the fruit.

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