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

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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marianfathers 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 1025. March 19, 1937. Today I united myself in spirit with the adoration that is taking

place in our house, 40-hour adoration in Krakow.

But my soul was full of torments, and some strange kind of apprehension was piercing my heart.

Because of this, I redoubled my prayers.

Suddenly I saw the gaze of God reaching into the depths of my heart. As I sat down to a very tasty

breakfast, I said to the Lord, thank you for these gifts, but my heart is dying of longing for you,

and nothing earthly is tasty to me. I desire the food of your love. Today I was drawn by some mysterious

force to act. I must resist this attraction or else I would follow it at once. March 21, 1937,

Palm Sunday. During Mass, my soul was steeped in the bitterness and suffering of Jesus.

Jesus gave me to understand how much he had suffered in that triumphal procession.

Hosanna was reverberating in Jesus' heart as an echo of crucify. Jesus allowed me to feel this in a special way.

The doctor did not allow me to go to the chapel to attend the Passion Service, although I had a

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