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 1102.

There are, in my life, times and moments of spiritual insight, that is, divine illuminations, when the soul receives inward instruction about things it has not read in any book and has not been taught by any person.

These are times of great inner knowledge which God himself imparts to the soul.

These are great mysteries.

I often receive light and the knowledge of the interior life of God and of God's intimate disposition.

And this fills me with unutterable trust and a joy that I cannot contain within myself.

I desire to dissolve completely in Him.

The quintessence of love is sacrifice and suffering. Truth wears a crown of thorns.

Prayer involves the intellect, the will, and the emotions. Today there was a beautiful

teaching by Father Plaza on the goodness and mercy of God. During this conference, my soul experienced the

flames of God's love, and I understood that God's word is a living word. My particular

examine is still the same, namely, union with the merciful Christ and silence.

The flower which I lay at the feet of the mother of God for May is my practice of silence.

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