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

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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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 997.

This evening when I heard the hymn, Good Night, Holy Head of My Jesus, on the radio, my spirit

was suddenly swept away to God's mysterious bosom, and I knew in what the greatness

of a soul consists, and what matters to God, love, love, and once again love.

And I understood how all that exists is saturated with God, and such a love of God

inundated my soul that I am at a loss to describe it.

Happy the soul that knows how to love unreservedly, for in this lies its greatness.

Today I took part in a one-day retreat. When I was at the last conference, the priest was speaking

of how much the world needs God's mercy, and that this seems to be a special time when people

have great need of prayer and God's mercy. Then I heard a voice in my soul. These words are for you.

Do all you possibly can for this work of my mercy.

I desire that my mercy be worshipped, and I am giving mankind the last hope of salvation, that is, recourse to my mercy.

My heart rejoices in this feast. After these words, I understood that

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