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.

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

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 1589. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the soul's expectation of the coming of the

Lord. I do not know, O Lord, at what hour you will come, and so I keep constant watch and listen as your chosen bride,

knowing that you like to come unexpected.

Yet a pure heart will sense you from afar, O Lord.

I wait for you, Lord, in calm and silence,

with great longing in my heart, with invincible desire.

I feel that my love for you is changing into fire, and that it will rise up to heaven like a flame at life's end,

and then all my wishes will be fulfilled.

Come then, at last, my most sweet Lord, and take my thirsting heart, there to your home in the lofty

regions of heaven, where your eternal life perdures. Life on this earth is but an agony. As my heart feels it is created for the heights.

For it, the lowlands of this life hold no interest. For my homeland is in heaven. This I firmly believe.

End of Notebook 5.

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