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, Father Joe Roche, are 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 111. When in the midst of these interior torments,

I tried to accuse myself in confession of the smallest trifles. The priest was surprised

that I had not committed graver faults, and he said to me,

if you are as faithful as this to God during these sufferings, this in itself is evidence to me

that God is sustaining you, sister, with a special grace, and it is a good thing that you do not

understand this. It is a strange thing, nevertheless, that confessors could

neither understand me nor set my mind at peace concerning these matters until I met Father

Andrash and later on Father Sopochko. A few words about confession and confessors. I shall speak

only of what I have experienced and gone through

within my own soul. There are three things which hinder the soul from drawing prophet from confession

in these exceptional moments. The first thing, when the confessor has little knowledge of

extraordinary ways and shows surprise in a soul,

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