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

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Hello, I, 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 Cavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 349. In the morning, during meditation, I felt a painful thorn

in the left side of my head. The suffering continued all day. I meditated continually about how Jesus had been

able to endure the pain of so many thorns which made up his crown. I joined my suffering to the

sufferings of Jesus and offered it for sinners. At four o'clock, when I came for adoration, I saw one of our words

offending God greatly by sins of impure thoughts. I also saw a certain person who was the

cause of her sin. My soul was pierced with fear, and I asked God for the sake of Jesus's

pain to snatch her from this terrible misery.

Jesus answered that he would grant her that favor, not for her sake, but for the sake of my request.

Now I understood how much we ought to pray for sinners, and especially for our wards.

Our life is truly apostolic. I cannot imagine a religious

living in one of our houses, that is, in our community, and not have an apostolic spirit.

Zeal for the salvation of souls should burn in our hearts. Oh my God, how sweet it is to suffer for you.

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