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.

Order my book, Shining in Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaculate Conception,

in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org. That's shopmercy.org. God bless you. Hello, I father Joe

Roche of the Marianth 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 1069. March 29, 1937. During meditation today, I saw the Lord in great beauty,

and he said to me, Peace be to you, my daughter. My whole soul trembled with love for him,

and I said, O Lord, although I love you with all my heart, please do not appear to me because my spiritual director has told me that these sudden appearances of yours aroused the suspicion that you could be an illusion.

And although I love you more than my own life, and I know that you are my Lord and God who are communing with me,

I must above all be obedient to my confessor.

Jesus listened to my words with gravity and kindness and spoke these words to me.

Tell your confessor that I commune with your soul in such an intimate manner because you do not steal my gifts.

And this is why I pour all these graces upon your soul, because I know that you will not hoard

them for yourself. But as a sign that his prudence is agreeable to me, you shall not see me and I will not appear

to you in this way until you have given him an account of what I have just said."

April 2, 1937, In the morning during Mass, I heard these words. Tell the superior that I want adoration

to take place here for the intention of imploring mercy for the world. Oh my Jesus, you alone know

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