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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Hello, I'm 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 Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,

beginning with diary entry number 1697. I was feeling fairly well today, and I was glad that I would be able to make the

holy hour. But when I began to make the holy hour, my physical sufferings intensified,

so that I was not able to pray.

When the Holy Hour was over, my sufferings came to an end, and I complained to the Lord

that I had wanted so much to steep myself in his sorrowful passion, but that my sufferings had

not allowed me to do so. Then Jesus said to me, my daughter, know that if I allow you to feel

and have a more profound knowledge of my sufferings, that is a grace from me. But when your mind is dimmed

and your sufferings are great, it is then that you take an active part in my passion, and I am conforming you more fully to myself.

It is your task to submit yourself to my will at such times more than at others.

I often attend upon the dying, and through entreatiesies obtained for them trust in God's mercy,

and I implore God for an abundance of divine grace, which is always victorious. God's mercy

sometimes touches the sinner at the last moment in a wondrous and mysterious way.

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