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'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 Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 178. Today we are beginning the third probation. All three of us met at Mother

Margaret's as the other sisters were having their probation in the Navitian. Mother Margaret began with a prayer,

explained to us what the third probation consists of, and then spoke on how great is the grace

of the perpetual vows. Suddenly I began to cry out loud. In an instant, all God's grace

appeared before the eyes of my soul, and I saw myself

so wretched and ungrateful toward God.

The sisters began to rebuke me, saying, why did she break out crying?

But Mother Margaret came to my defense, saying that she was not surprised.

At the end of the hour, I went before the Blessed Sacrament, and like the greatest

and most miserable of wretches, I begged for his mercy that he might heal and purify my poor soul.

Then I heard these words. My daughter, all your miseries have been consumed in the flame of my love, like a little twig thrown

into a roaring fire. By humbling yourself in this way, you draw upon yourself and upon

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